Equilibrium states in galactic dynamics can be described as static or stationary solutions of the
Einstein–Vlasov system, or of the Vlasov–Poisson system in the Newtonian case. Here we consider the
relativistic case and we refer to the excellent review paper [141] for the Newtonian case. First, we discuss
spherically-symmetric solutions for which the structure is quite well understood. On the other hand,
almost nothing is known about the stability of the spherically-symmetric static solutions of the
Einstein–Vlasov system, which is in sharp contrast to the situation for the Vlasov–Poisson
system. At the end of this section a recent result [18
] on axisymmetric static solutions will be
presented.
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