Dynamic and thermodynamic stability of charged perfect fluid stars

Abstract

Abstract We perform a thorough analysis of the dynamic and thermodynamic stability for the charged perfect fluid star by applying the Wald formalism to the Lagrangian formulation of Einstein–Maxwell-charged fluid system. As a result, we find that neither the presence of the additional electromagnetic field nor the Lorentz force experienced by the charged fluid makes any obstruction to the key steps towards the previous results obtained for the neutral perfect fluid star. Therefore, the criterion for the dynamic stability of our charged star in dynamic equilibrium within the symplectic complement of the trivial perturbations with the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) 3-momentum unchanged is given by the non-negativity of the canonical energy associated with the timelike Killing field, where it is further shown for both non-axisymmetric and axisymmetric perturbations that the dynamic stability against these restricted perturbations also implies the dynamic stability against more generic perturbations. On the other hand, the necessary condition for the thermodynamic stability of our charged star in thermodynamic equilibrium is given by the positivity of the canonical energy of all the linear on-shell perturbations with the ADM angular momentum unchanged in the comoving frame, which is equivalent to the positivity of the canonical energy associated with the timelike Killing field when restricted onto the axisymmetric perturbations. As a by-product, we further establish the equivalence of the dynamic and thermodynamic stability with respect to the spherically symmetric perturbations of the static, spherically symmetric isentropic charged star.