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A self-gravitating homogeneous ball of a fluid with pressure zero where the fluid particles are initially at rest collapses to a point in finite time. We prove that this gravitational collapse can be approximated arbitrarily closely by suitable solutions of the Vlasov–Poisson system which are known to exist globally in time.
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Rein, G., Taegert, L. Gravitational Collapse and the Vlasov–Poisson System. Ann. Henri Poincaré 17, 1415–1427 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-015-0424-y
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