Supersonic Gravitational Collapse for Non-Isentropic Gaseous Stars

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Autores principales: Alexander, Christopher, Hadžić, Mahir, Schrecker, Matthew
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author Alexander, Christopher
Hadžić, Mahir
Schrecker, Matthew
author_facet Alexander, Christopher
Hadžić, Mahir
Schrecker, Matthew
contents We show the existence of a new class of initially smooth spherically symmetric self-similar solutions to the non-isentropic Euler-Poisson system. These solutions exhibit supersonic gravitational implosion in the sense that the density blows-up in finite time while the fluid velocity remains supersonic. In particular, they occupy a portion of the phase space that is far from the recently constructed isentropic self-similar implosion. At the heart of our proof is the presence of a two-parameter scaling invariance and the reduction of the problem to a non-autonomous system of ordinary differential equations. We use the requirement of smoothness of the flow as a selection principle that constrains the choice of scaling indices. An important consequence of our analysis is that for all the solutions we construct, the polytropic index $γ$ is strictly bigger than $\frac{4}{3}$, which is in sharp contrast to the known results in the isentropic case.
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spellingShingle Supersonic Gravitational Collapse for Non-Isentropic Gaseous Stars
Alexander, Christopher
Hadžić, Mahir
Schrecker, Matthew
Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
Dynamical Systems
35Q85, 35B44, 34C05
We show the existence of a new class of initially smooth spherically symmetric self-similar solutions to the non-isentropic Euler-Poisson system. These solutions exhibit supersonic gravitational implosion in the sense that the density blows-up in finite time while the fluid velocity remains supersonic. In particular, they occupy a portion of the phase space that is far from the recently constructed isentropic self-similar implosion. At the heart of our proof is the presence of a two-parameter scaling invariance and the reduction of the problem to a non-autonomous system of ordinary differential equations. We use the requirement of smoothness of the flow as a selection principle that constrains the choice of scaling indices. An important consequence of our analysis is that for all the solutions we construct, the polytropic index $γ$ is strictly bigger than $\frac{4}{3}$, which is in sharp contrast to the known results in the isentropic case.
title Supersonic Gravitational Collapse for Non-Isentropic Gaseous Stars
topic Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
Dynamical Systems
35Q85, 35B44, 34C05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18795