An Application of the Nash-Moser Theorem to the Vacuum Boundary Problem of Gaseous Stars

Abstract

We have been studying spherically symmetric motions of gaseous stars with physical vacuum boundary governed either by the Euler-Poisson equations in the non-relativistic theory or by the Einstein-Euler equations in the relativistic theory. The problems are to construct solutions whose first approximations are small time-periodic solutions to the linearized problem at an equilibrium and to construct solutions to the Cauchy problem near an equilibrium. These problems can be solved when $1/(γ-1)$ is an integer, where $γ$ is the adiabatic exponent of the gas near the vacuum, by the formulation by R. Hamilton of the Nash-Moser theorem. We discuss on an application of the formulation by J. T. Schwartz of the Nash-Moser theorem to the case in which $1/(γ-1)$ is not an integer but sufficiently large.