Stability criterion for selfsimilar solutions with perfect fluids in general relativity
Sep, 200118 pages
Published in:
- Class.Quant.Grav. 18 (2001) 4549-4568
e-Print:
- gr-qc/0109042 [gr-qc]
Report number:
- WU-AP-137-01
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Abstract: (arXiv)
A stability criterion is derived for self-similar solutions with perfect fluids which obey the equation of state in general relativity. A wide class of self-similar solutions turn out to be unstable against the so-called kink mode. The criterion is directly related to the classification of sonic points. The criterion gives a sufficient condition for instability of the solution. For a transonic point in collapse, all primary-direction nodal-point solutions are unstable, while all secondary-direction nodal-point solutions and saddle-point ones are stable against the kink mode. The situation is reversed in expansion. Applications are the following: the expanding flat Friedmann solution for and the collapsing one for are unstable; the static self-similar solution is unstable; nonanalytic self-similar collapse solutions are unstable; the Larson-Penston (attractor) solution is stable for this mode for 0References(36)
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