On a Local Existence Theorem for the Evolution Equation of Viscous Gaseous Stars in a Physical Vacuum

Abstract

This paper focuses on the free boundary problem of the three-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes-Poisson equations with degenerate viscosities for self-gravitating viscous gaseous stars. For spherically symmetric barotropic motion, we establish the local well-posedness of classical solutions. The solutions obtained here are smooth all the way up to the moving boundary and capture the physical vacuum boundary behavior of the Lane-Emden star configuration for all adiabatic exponents $γ>\frac{4}{3}$.