Existence and stability of steady states solutions of Flat Vlasov-Poisson system with a central mass density

Abstract

We study a Newtonian model which allows us to describe some extremely flat objects in galactic dynamics. This model is described by a partial differential equation system called Vlasov-Poisson, whose solutions describe the temporal evolution of a collisionless particle system in the phase space, subject to a self interacting gravitational potential. We treat the Flat VlasovPoisson system with an external gravitational potential induced by a fixed mass density. The aim of this article is the study of the existence, regularity, and stability of steady states solutions of the Flat Vlasov-Poisson system in this case. We solved a variational problem to find minimizers for the Casimir-Energy functional in a suitable set of functions. The minimization problem is solved through a reduction of the original optimization problem with a scheme used in [FR06], but instead of a concentration-compactness argument, we use a symmetrization argument to construct a spherically symmetric solution for the reduced problem. It was proven that this minimizer induces a solution for the original minimization problem. The regularity of the gravitational potential was also obtained, implying that the solutions are steady states of the Flat Vlasov-Poisson system. The minimization problem also works as a key to give us a similar non-linear stability result.