Stability criterion for selfsimilar solutions with perfect fluids in general relativity

Sep, 2001
18 pages
Published in:
  • Class.Quant.Grav. 18 (2001) 4549-4568
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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 P=kρP=k\rho 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 1/3k<11/3 \le k < 1 and the collapsing one for 0<k1/30< k \le 1/3 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 0