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Nonlinear stability and instability of rotating Riesz star solutions of the compressible Euler-Riesz equations

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Pith's one-line read The paper proves that rotating Riesz star solutions of the compressible Euler–Riesz equations exist as energy minimizers, are nonlinearly stable below a critical mass, and become unstable above it.

desk verdict Genuine variational progress on rotating Riesz stars, but the stability and instability theorems are conditional on global solutions whose existence for rotating data is not established. read the letter →

arxiv 2607.27925 v1 pith:KLGRIXEN submitted 2026-07-30 math.AP math-phmath.FAmath.MP

classification math.APmath-phmath.FAmath.MP MSC 35Q3535Q3135B3535A1535R0935L6576N1035B38
keywords compressibleEuler-RieszequationsrotatingRieszstarsnonlinearstabilityinstabilityconcentrationcompactnessmass-supercriticalregimepotentialaxisymmetricsteadystates
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The paper establishes a conditional dichotomy for rotating Riesz stars, axisymmetric steady states of the attractive compressible Euler–Riesz equations that rotate with angular velocity J(m(r))/r. In the mass-subcritical regime the stars exist as minimizers of a free-energy functional and are nonlinearly stable, provided global finite-energy weak solutions retain the assumed angular-momentum structure along particle paths. In the mass-supercritical polytropic regime the stars still exist as minimizers but are nonlinearly unstable: arbitrarily close initial data lead to solutions whose support grows without bound. The dividing line is the mass-critical exponent, and the proof hinges on new compactness for axisymmetric minimizing sequences, ruling out mass escaping along rings of diverging radius.

What carries the argument

The central machinery is the pair of free-energy functionals G (subcritical) and S_μ (supercritical) defined over axisymmetric densities with angular momentum squared L, together with the mass-preserving scaling ϱ_λ(x) = λ^{3/2} ϱ(λ^{1/2} x) and the quantity κ(ϱ) that separates the two possible critical scalings when α ∈ (0,2). These tools convert compactness of minimizers into existence of stars, and concavity of S_μ under scaling into growth of support, giving instability.

What would settle it

Take α = 1, polytropic exponent γ = 6/5 (supercritical), and L(m) = m^ω with ω chosen slightly below the predicted threshold ω* + ω̄. If numerical solutions starting in the invariant set fail to grow support, the instability condition is falsified; more directly, constructing a global weak solution for rotating axisymmetric data that violates (A2) would falsify the stability theorem's premise.

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Core claim

For subcritical masses, rotating Riesz stars are variational minimizers and nonlinearly stable; for supercritical masses, they exist as minimizers but are unstable through growth of support. The steady state satisfies the profile equation (ρ e(ρ))_ρ + ∫_r^∞ L(m_ρ(s))s^{-3} ds + Φα * ρ = -μ on its support, with rotational velocity J(m_ρ(r))/r e_θ. The central compactness theorem shows that an axisymmetric minimizing sequence cannot lose mass along rings whose radii diverge, because the potential energy would then vanish and force the infimum to become non-negative, contradicting strict negativity. The instability proof uses concavity of the rescaled free energy and a virial identity to force

Load-bearing premise

The theorems assume that global finite-energy weak or classical solutions of the Euler–Riesz equations exist and conserve angular momentum and mass along particle paths; the paper does not prove global existence for rotating axisymmetric data, and known finite-time singularity results make this premise fragile.

Editorial extensions

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  • If the stability theorem holds, then for polytropic gases with γ > (3+α)/3, solutions starting close to a rotating Riesz star remain close in the relative-energy distance for all time, up to vertical translation.
  • In the supercritical range, any solution starting in the invariant set I_μ must have support growing to infinity, so the star is not even nonlinearly stable in a weak sense.
  • The stability result requires conservation of angular momentum and mass along particle paths; if these structural assumptions fail, the dichotomy may collapse.
  • The mass bounds (2.5)–(2.6) play the role of a critical mass; crossing it flips stability to instability for rotating Riesz stars.
  • The results generalize the classical rotating-star theory of the Euler–Poisson equations to the full Riesz range α ∈ (0,3).

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The virial-based instability argument likely transfers to finite-energy weak solutions provided the structural assumptions (A1)–(A4) hold, since it only uses the weak form of the equations.
  • The superhomogeneity threshold ω* + ω̄ may be sharp; testing with power-law angular momentum L(m) = m^ω near the threshold would provide a concrete numerical check of the existence and instability conditions.
  • The ring-drifting compactness result is a general template for axisymmetric variational problems with rotational terms: if minimizing mass drifts to infinite radius, potential energy vanishes and forces the energy to be non-negative.
  • Rotation appears to stabilize in the regime α ∈ (0,2) by slowing ring drift, but destabilizes for α ∈ [2,3) in the supercritical regime, indicating that the effect of rotation depends on the singularity of the Riesz kernel.
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Summary. The paper studies rotating steady states of the attractive three-dimensional compressible Euler–Riesz equations (CEREs), which it calls rotating Riesz stars. In the mass-subcritical regime (general pressure laws, polytropically γ > (3+α)/3), it proves existence of minimisers of the free-energy functional G over axisymmetric densities of fixed mass under subhomogeneity conditions on the angular momentum profile L, and shows these minimisers solve the rotating-star equations (2.4) (Corollary 3.10, Theorem 3.11). It then proves a conditional nonlinear stability theorem (Theorem 2.5) for a unique minimiser, assuming the existence of global finite-energy weak solutions satisfying structural assumptions (A1)–(A4). In the polytropic mass-supercritical regime (6/(6−α) < γ < (3+α)/3), it introduces a modified admissible class K and proves existence of minimisers of S_μ (Theorem 2.8) under superhomogeneity conditions, and shows these are compactly supported rotating Riesz stars. Finally, under an additional growth condition on L and assuming global classical solutions, it proves growth of the support for solutions starting near the star (Theorem 6.4), yielding a conditional instability result. The main technical novelty is a concentration-compactness argument adapted to axisymmetry that excludes loss of mass along rings with diverging radii.

Significance. Provided the conditional premises are accepted, the paper makes a significant contribution: it extends the classical Auchmuty–Beals/Luo–Smoller rotating-star theory from Newtonian to Riesz interactions, introduces a genuinely new compactness mechanism for axisymmetric sequences (control of ring concentration), and gives the first mass-supercritical existence result beyond small angular velocity. The variational Euler–Lagrange computations are coherent and the scaling analysis is internally consistent. However, the dynamical conclusions are conditional on global existence and uniqueness hypotheses that are not proved here; the cited global existence result is for spherically symmetric data, and known singularity results for classical solutions make the instability theorem's premise potentially empty. The paper's strengths include a detailed variational framework and explicit scaling analysis; its main weakness is the gap between the stated 'nonlinear stability/instability' and the conditional nature of the theorems.

major comments (3)
  1. [Theorems 2.5 and 6.4] The central dynamical theorems are conditional on global solutions that are not shown to exist. Theorem 2.5 assumes a global finite-energy weak solution satisfying (A1)–(A4); Theorem 6.4 assumes a global classical solution. The cited global existence result [13] is restricted to spherically symmetric initial data, and Choi–Jeong [21] prove finite-time singularity for classical solutions in the attractive regime. Consequently, the paper does not establish that rotating Riesz stars are actually stable or unstable solutions of the CEREs; it proves conditional statements about hypothetical global solutions. Since the abstract and introduction present nonlinear stability/instability as the main results, this missing existence premise is load-bearing. The author should either prove global existence for rotating axisymmetric data (or at least provide a local existence/continuation framework), o
  2. [Theorem 2.5] The stability theorem assumes ¯ρ is the unique minimiser of G over X_M up to vertical translation, but Corollary 3.10 only establishes existence of a minimiser. No uniqueness proof or example is provided. Without uniqueness, Theorem 3.2 only gives convergence of a minimising sequence to some minimiser; the contradiction argument in §4 cannot identify the limit with the reference state ¯ρ. Remark 4.2 refers to the non-unique case but gives no proof. The theorem should either prove uniqueness under (2.5)–(2.7), or be reformulated as stability of the set of minimisers, or the uniqueness hypothesis should be stated prominently in the abstract.
  3. [Theorem 3.2, Step 4] The exclusion of concentration along rings with diverging radii is the key new compactness statement, but the proof is sketched. In particular, estimate (3.17) is asserted without proof, and the covering argument with Cov_k(R) is terse. Since this is the central new ingredient separating the paper from prior non-rotating compactness arguments, the author should provide a complete proof of (3.17), including the precise use of axisymmetry, and justify the covering estimate in detail.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Definition 2.1(b)] The two displayed inequalities are not clearly labelled; the first involves a different sign of the potential term and is later used as an energy upper bound. Please clarify which quantity is the physical energy and which is an auxiliary bound.
  2. [Lemma 3.8] The uniform convergence of m^S_{ϱ_k}(r) on [0,R] is justified by a 'variation of Dini's Theorem' from [61, p.167]; monotonicity in k is not shown, so please spell out the argument or replace it with a direct proof.
  3. [Appendix A] The phrase 'main text of the thesis' should be 'main text of the paper'.
  4. [Equation (2.8)] The relative energy is defined with a subtracted rotational kinetic term; please explain the physical meaning of this subtraction in the text.

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No circular reduction found: rotating-star construction is a genuine minimizer-to-Euler-Lagrange argument, and stability/instability are conditional theorems proved from stated assumptions.

full rationale

No load-bearing step reduces to its own input or to a self-citation. The rotating Riesz star (Def. 2.2) is defined by the steady-state equation (2.4) obtained by inserting the angular-momentum ansatz into (1.1); Theorem 3.11 then derives exactly this equation as the Euler-Lagrange equation of the free energy G, whose rotational term is the kinetic energy of the same ansatz. This is a standard variational characterization, not a fitted prediction: L is prescribed, and the theorem produces a density satisfying the corresponding equation. The stability theorem (Thm. 2.5) is an implication whose premises (global finite-energy weak solutions satisfying (A1)-(A4), unique minimizer up to vertical translation) are stated assumptions, not conclusions obtained by citing [12] or [13]; the concentration-compactness proof in Section 4 is carried out in the paper. The mass-supercritical existence (Thm. 2.8) and instability (Thm. 6.4) are proved from the stated superhomogeneity conditions, with the threshold ω*+ω̄ derived in §5 and shown necessary in Remark 5.11; no 'prediction' is statistically forced or definitionally identical to an input. The author's self-citations [12],[13] provide background on non-rotating/spherically symmetric global existence and the stationary variational framework, but the rotating results are new and are not reduced to those papers. The absence of a proof of global existence for rotating axisymmetric data is a correctness/existence gap (the theorems are conditional), not a circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 7 assumptions · 2 invented entities

The central claims rest on standard convolution inequalities, on explicit assumptions about the angular momentum profile L and the pressure law, and on two substantial unproven premises: global weak/classical solutions with the required angular-momentum structure, and uniqueness of the subcritical minimizer. These are the load-bearing inputs the reader must accept.

free parameters (1)
  • Angular momentum profile L
    All theorems are conditional on an input function L satisfying monotonicity and (sub/super)homogeneity conditions: (2.3),(2.7),(2.11) in the subcritical case; (2.13),(2.16),(2.17) in the supercritical case. It is not fitted to data, but it is chosen by hand and the results depend on it.
assumptions (7)
  • standard math Hardy–Littlewood–Sobolev and weak Young convolution inequalities with sharp constants (Lemmas A.1–A.3)
    Used throughout §3–§5 to bound potential energy and to establish the mass conditions (2.5)–(2.6).
  • standard math Riesz rearrangement inequality (Lemma A.4)
    Used in Lemma 5.8 to replace minimizer sequences by sequences that are radially decreasing in the z-coordinate.
  • domain assumption Existence of global finite-energy weak solutions of the CEREs satisfying angular-momentum conservation (A1)–(A4) for rotating axisymmetric data
    Assumed in Theorem 2.5. Not proven here; the paper cites [13], which treats spherically symmetric data, not rotating axisymmetric data.
  • ad hoc to paper Uniqueness of the minimiser of G over X_M up to vertical translations
    Required in Theorem 2.5; only existence of a minimizer is proven (Corollary 3.10). Remark 4.2 gestures at a relaxation but does not provide the proof.
  • domain assumption Global classical solutions of the polytropic CEREs exist for initial data in I_μ
    Theorem 6.4 assumes classical solutions on [0,∞). No global existence theorem is provided, and finite-time singularity formation is known for related Euler–Riesz regimes (Choi–Jeong [21]).
  • domain assumption Pressure-law and mass constraints (2.5)–(2.6)
    Ensure the free energy is bounded below and the infimum is negative; these are the Chandrasekhar-mass-type conditions used in the subcritical variational problem.
  • ad hoc to paper Superhomogeneity condition (2.16) with ω > ω* + ω̄ for α∈(0,2)
    Needed to keep the admissible set K nonempty and to prove that minimizers are rotating Riesz star solutions. Remark 5.11 argues the condition is intrinsic rather than a technical artefact.
invented entities (2)
  • Rotating Riesz star independent evidence
    purpose: A new class of axisymmetric rotating steady states of the attractive compressible Euler–Riesz equations, defined by (2.4) with velocity J(m_ρ(r))/r e_θ.
    Existence is proven by variational minimization (Theorems 3.11 and 2.8) and the object satisfies the Euler–Lagrange equations; it is an introduced solution concept, not an unexplained entity pulled from a hat.
  • Quantity κ(ϱ) independent evidence
    purpose: Separates the two possible critical scalings of a density in the α∈(0,2) supercritical regime; used to define the effective admissible set and the instability set I_μ.
    Has the explicit formula (5.1) and is derived from the second derivative of the rescaled free energy; it is a mathematical construction with a falsifiable role in the proof, not a physical entity.

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The compressible Euler--Riesz equations arise in the modelling of a wide range of physical phenomena, including stellar dynamics, plasma physics, and mathematical biology. We study rotating steady states of the attractive compressible Euler--Riesz equations, which we call rotating Riesz stars, and establish existence and nonlinear stability or instability results in both the mass-subcritical and mass-supercritical regimes. In the mass-subcritical regime, we prove the existence of rotating Riesz stars under suitable subhomogeneity assumptions on the angular momentum profile. We then establish their nonlinear stability through a concentration compactness argument adapted to the axisymmetric setting. Rotation creates new compactness difficulties, most notably the possibility that minimising sequences are tight along rings whose radii diverge to infinity. In the mass-supercritical regime, we prove existence in the polytropic setting under suitable superhomogeneity assumptions on the angular momentum profile, thereby extending the theory beyond the small angular velocity regime. The proof requires a careful analysis of mass-preserving scalings, which are more delicate than in the non-rotating case. Finally, by analysing the concavity of the free-energy along these scalings, we establish the instability of the resulting mass-supercritical rotating Riesz stars. Our results show that rotation can have either a stabilising or a destabilising effect, depending on the singularity of the Riesz interaction.

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