Compact Core--Shell Equilibria in Gravitational Vlasov--Poisson Systems with Positive and Negative Mass

[2608.27900] Compact Core--Shell Equilibria in Gravitational Vlasov--Poisson Systems with Positive and Negative Mass Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology arXiv:2608.27900 (gr-qc) [Submitted on 28 Aug 2026] Title: Compact Core--Shell Equilibria in Gravitational Vlasov--Poisson Systems with Positive and Negative Mass Authors: Naoki Sato View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: We construct regular, spherically symmetric, compact energy-cutoff equilibria for gravitational Vlasov--Poisson systems sourced by positive and negative mass distributions in the context of stellar dynamics. Motivated by Bondi's notion of negative mass and its relation to the weak field limit of Einstein gravity with a signed mass--energy source, we show that the internal structure of the steady states depends qualitatively on the type of negative mass present. In the Bondi convention, the signs of inertial, passive gravitational, and active gravitational mass are reversed together, preserving the equivalence principle. The resulting equilibria consist of a central overlap core containing both mass species, surrounded by a finite positive mass shell and an exterior vacuum. Thus, although a pure Bondi negative mass gas cannot form a compact steady state, Bondi negative mass can be spatially confined by a suitable positive mass distribution. In the gravitational-charge convention, only the passive and active gravitational masses change sign, so that the two species obey opposite free-fall laws and unlike masses repel. The resulting equilibria are spatially segregated into a negative mass core, a vacuum gap, a positive mass shell, and an exterior vacuum. For cutoff exponent $n=-1/2$, the radial matching is explicit, while for the regular cutoff $n=1/2$ the matter regions satisfy Lane--Emden-type equations. These results provide a kinetic framework for investigating the distribution of negative mass in astrophysical and cosmological settings. Comments: 25 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) ; Mathematical Physics (math-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2608.27900 [gr-qc] (or arXiv:2608.27900v1 [gr-qc] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.27900 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Naoki Sato [ view email ] [v1] Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:09:58 UTC (13,828 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: gr-qc < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: math math-ph math.MP References & Citations INSPIRE HEP SciX Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) IArxiv recommender toggle IArxiv Recommender ( What is IArxiv? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs . Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax ( What is MathJax? ) We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders , member institutions , and all contributors. About · Help · Contact · Subscribe · Copyright · Privacy · Accessibility · Operational Status (opens in new tab)

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