Singularity formation for the cylindrically symmetric rotating relativistic Euler equations of Chaplygin gases

Abstract

Abstract This paper studies the formation of singularities in smooth solutions of the relativistic Euler equations of Chaplygin gases with cylindrically symmetric rotating structures. This is a nonhomogeneous hyperbolic system with highly nonlinear structures and fully linearly degenerating characteristic fields. We introduce a pair of auxiliary functions and use the characteristic decomposition technique to overcome the influence of the rotating structures in the system. It is verified that smooth solutions develop into a singularity in finite time and the mass-energy density tends to infinity at the blowup point for a type of rotating initial data.