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Relative equilibria in continuous stellar dynamics

Campos Serrano, Juan; Del Pino, Manuel; Dolbeault, Jean (2010), Relative equilibria in continuous stellar dynamics, Communications in Mathematical Physics, 300, 3, p. 765-788. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00220-010-1128-2

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Date
2010
Journal name
Communications in Mathematical Physics
Volume
300
Number
3
Publisher
Springer
Pages
765-788
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Campos Serrano, Juan
Del Pino, Manuel
Dolbeault, Jean cc
Abstract (EN)
We study a three dimensional continuous model of gravitating matter rotating at constant angular velocity. In the rotating reference frame, by a finite dimensional reduction, we prove the existence of non radial stationary solutions whose supports are made of an arbitrarily large number of disjoint compact sets, in the low angular velocity and large scale limit. At first order, the solutions behave like point particles, thus making the link with the relative equilibria} in N-body dynamics.
Subjects / Keywords
variational methods; symmetry breaking; angular velocity; gravitation; elliptic equations; critical points; solutions with compact support; finite dimensional reduction; radial solutions; N-body problems; relative equilibria; rotation; Stellar dynamics; mass; orbital stability