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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Notes on the result of solutions of the equilibrium equations

Boundary Value Problems volume 2018, Article number: 57 (2018) Cite this article

  • The Retraction Note to this article has been published in Boundary Value Problems 2020 2020:127

Abstract

In this short note, we correct some expressions obtained by Wang et al. (Bound. Value Probl. 2015:230, 2015). The corrected expressions will be useful for evaluating the boundary behaviors of solutions of modified equilibrium equations with finite mass subject. Moreover, the correction of Theorem 2.1 is also given.

Introduction

The origin of our work lies in Wang et al. [1]. In [1], they investigated slow equilibrium equations with finite mass subject to a homogeneous Neumann-type boundary condition. As an application, the existence of solutions for Laplace equations with a Neumann-type boundary condition was also proved, which has recently been used to study the Cauchy problem of Laplace equation by Wang [2].

However, there exist some misprints and erroneous expressions in [1]. Firstly, we correct some misprints in Sect. 2. Then we correct erroneous expressions in Sect. 3. The corrected versions will be useful for evaluating the boundary behaviors of solutions of the equilibrium equations with finite mass subject. Finally, we correct Theorem 2.1 in Sect. 4. The present notation and terminology is the same as in [1].

Some misprints

We are indebted to the anonymous reviewer for pointing out to us that the following should also be corrected in [1].

(I) A correct version of Abstract reads as follows.

The aim of this paper is to study the models of rotating stars with prescribed angular velocity. We prove that it can be formulated as a variational problem. As an application, we are also concerned with the existence of equilibrium solution.

(II) \({\mathbb{R}}^{4}\) and \(x_{4}\) should be written as \({\mathbb{R}}^{3}\) and \(x_{3}\), respectively.

(III) Introduction: instead of “3-D”, there should be “4-D”.

(IV) Some main references [1, 2, 3] should be corrected as follows:

[1] Auchmuty, G, Beals, R: Variational solutions of some nonlinear free boundary problems. Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 43, 255–271 (1971)

[2] Li, Y: On Uniformly Rotating Stars. Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 115, 367–393 (1991)

[3] Deng, Y, Yang, T: Multiplicity of stationary solutions to the Euler–Poisson equations. J. Differ. Equ. 231, 252–289 (2006)

(V) On page 2, line 12: instead of “P:”, there should be “\(P_{1}\):”.

Corrected expressions

We find that [1, inequality (2.4)] is not correct and should be modified as (the sign before the function “\((\frac{M_{1}}{M} )^{5/3}\)” should be “+”)

$$\begin{aligned} h_{M}-F(\rho) \leq{}& \biggl( 1+ \biggl( \frac{M_{1}}{M} \biggr)^{5/3} - \biggl( \frac {M_{2}}{M} \biggr)^{5/3} - \biggl( \frac{M_{3}}{M} \biggr)^{5/3} \biggr) h_{M} + \frac {C_{1}}{R_{2}} \\ &{}+ \frac{C_{3}}{R_{2}} \Vert \nabla\Phi_{2} \Vert _{2} \\ \leq{}& C_{4} h_{M} M_{1} M_{3} + \frac{C_{5}}{R_{2}} {\bigl(} 1+ \Vert \nabla\Phi_{2} \Vert _{2} {\bigr)}. \end{aligned}$$
(2.4)

Therefore, the expressions in [1] that are derived by using [1, inequality (2.4)] need to be corrected. Specifically, [1, inequality (2.8)] should be modified as

$$\begin{aligned} -C_{4} h_{M} \delta_{0} M_{n,3}\leq{}& C_{4} h_{M} M_{n,1} M_{n,3} \\ \leq{}& \frac{C_{5} }{R_{2}}\bigl( 1+ \Vert \nabla\Phi_{0,2} \Vert _{2}\bigr) +C_{5} \Vert \nabla\Phi _{n,2}-\nabla \Phi_{0,2} \Vert _{2} \\ &{}+ \bigl\vert F(T \rho_{n})- h_{M} \bigr\vert + \rho_{0}. \end{aligned}$$
(2.8)

These corrections will be useful for the readers who want to use [1, Theorem 2.1] to evaluate the boundary behavior of solutions of the equilibrium equations with finite mass subject.

Corrected Theorem 2.1

A correction of Theorem 2.1 in [1] reads as follows.

Theorem 2.1

Let \(P_{1}\)hold. Let \((\rho_{n})_{n=1}^{\infty}\in{\mathcal{A}}_{M}\)be a minimizing sequence of F. Then there exists a subsequence, still denoted by \((\rho_{n} )_{n=1}^{\infty }\), and a sequence of translations \(T\rho_{n}:=\rho_{n} (\cdot+a_{n} e_{3} ) \), where \(a_{n} \)are constants, and \(e_{3}=(0,0,1)\), such that

$$F(\rho_{0})=\inf_{{\mathcal{A}}_{M}}F (\rho) =h_{M}+ \rho_{0} $$

and \(T\rho_{n} \rightharpoonup\rho_{0} \)weakly in \(L^{\frac{4}{3}}({\mathbb{R}}^{3})\). For the induced potentials, we have \(\nabla\Phi_{T\rho_{n} }\rightharpoonup \nabla\Phi_{\rho_{0} } \)weakly in \(L^{2}({\mathbb{R}}^{3})\).

Proof

Define

$$I_{lm}:= \int \int\frac{\rho_{l}(x) \rho_{m} (y)}{x-y}\,dy\,dx $$

for \(l,m=1,2,3\).

Let \(\rho=\rho_{1} + \rho_{2} + \rho_{3}\), where \(\rho_{1}=\chi _{B_{R_{1}}}\rho\), \(\rho_{2}=\chi_{B_{R_{1},R_{2}}}\rho\), and \(\rho_{3}=\chi_{B_{R_{2}}}\rho\). So we have

$$F (\rho)= F (\rho_{1})+ F (\rho_{2})+F ( \rho_{3})-I_{12}- I_{13}-I_{23}. $$

Choosing \(R_{2} >2R_{1}\), we have

$$I_{13}\leq2 \int_{B_{R_{1}}}\frac{\rho(x)}{R_{1}}\,dx \int_{B_{R_{2},\infty}}\frac{\rho(y)}{|y|^{2}}\,dy \leq\frac{C_{1}}{R_{2}}. $$

Next, we estimate \(I_{12}\) and \(I_{23}\):

$$\begin{aligned} I_{12}+ I_{23} ={}& {-} \int\rho_{1} \Phi_{2} \,dx- \int\rho_{2} \Phi_{3}\,dx = \frac{1}{4\pi g} \int\nabla(\Phi_{1} +\Phi_{3})\cdot\nabla \Phi_{2} \,dx \\ \leq{}& C_{2} \Vert \rho_{1} +\rho_{3} \Vert _{\frac{6}{5}} \Vert \nabla\Phi_{2} \Vert _{2} \leq C_{3} \Vert \nabla\Phi_{2} \Vert _{2}. \end{aligned}$$

If we define \(M_{l} =\int\rho_{l} \,dx\), then it is easy to see that \(M=M_{1}+ M_{2} +M_{3}\).

The remaining proofs are carried out in the same way as for Theorem 2.1 in [1], except that instead of the erroneous expressions (2.4) and (2.8), we have to use their corrected versions given in Sect. 2. □

Conclusions

In this note, we corrected some expressions obtained by Wang et al. [1]. The corrected expressions will be useful for evaluating the boundary behavior of solutions of the equilibrium equations with finite mass subject. Moreover, the correction of Theorem 2.1 was also given.

Change history

  • 20 July 2020

    The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article [1] because the results are invalid. The article also shows evidence of authorship manipulation. Additionally, Universidad de Talca have confirmed that Ben Rodrigo has not been affiliated with their institution. The authors have not responded to any correspondence regarding this retraction.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Professor D. Simms for bringing to our attention that the expressions in [1] are not true in general. The authors are also grateful to the anonymous reviewer for his valuable observation.

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This work was supported by FONDECYT (No. 11130619).

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He, G., Wang, L. & Rodrigo, B. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Notes on the result of solutions of the equilibrium equations. Bound Value Probl 2018, 57 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13661-018-0959-1

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  • Boundary behavior
  • Equilibrium equation
  • Finite mass