The thermodynamical instability of self-gravitating systems is often called the gravothermal
catastrophe which also applies to relativistic cases. It should be noted that, however, since
the thermal equilibrium states have infinite mass with a vanishing cosmological constant,
the analyses of the gravothermal catastrophe in asymptotically flat spacetime always require
an artificial wall to confine the system. On the other hand, in a system with a negative
cosmological constant, the AdS barrier confines the particle system, allowing it to naturally
be in a thermal equilibrium state. Some of the authors have constructed a thermal equilibrium
state of such a system confined by the AdS barrier under the assumption of static spherical
symmetry and analyzed its stability [15, 16].
Properties of the Einstein-Vlasov system in static and spherically symmetric cases have
been intensively studied, but there are still few studies on systems with rotation [17–21].
The properties of a system, such as stability, generally depend on the presence of angular
momentum because the total angular momentum may prevent the system from collapsing.
In the case of a self-gravitating many-particle system, it is expected that the instability
associated with gravitational collapse may be inhibited by the angular momentum of the
system. However, the existence of the non-zero angular momentum inevitably reduces the
spacetime symmetry, and the analyses become much more difficult. To avoid this technical
difficulty, we focus on 5–dimensional spacetimes because it is known that the spacetime can
have a cohomogeneity-1 structure even with non-zero angular momentum in 5–dimensional
spacetimes. That is, we can construct a spacetime with finite angular momentum solving a set
of ordinary differential equations for unknown variables depending only on a radial coordinate.
More specifically, in a 5–dimensional spacetime, if the values of the angular momenta on the
two independent rotation planes are equal to each other, the spacetime symmetry can be
enhanced to R×SU (2) ×U(1). The corresponding black hole solution is called the Myers-
Perry (AdS) black hole with equal angular momenta [22–26]. Due to its high symmetry, this
spacetime is often used in the analyses of gravitational perturbations and phenomena specific
to rotating systems.
In this paper, we consider rotating solutions for the Einstein-Vlasov system with an R×
SU (2) ×U(1) isometry group appropriately setting the distribution function of the Vlasov
field. A negative cosmological constant is introduced for the realization of the stationary
solutions with finite total mass and angular momentum. In general, a resultant spacetime
has an asymptotically locally AdS structure, whose spatial geometry is given by the foliation
of squashed S3hyper-surfaces even at spatial infinity. The squashing parameter at spatial
infinity can be set to zero by tuning the boundary condition at the center, and the spacetime
can be asymptotically AdS without squashing of S3at spatial infinity. We note that a similar
situation has been reported in the vacuum cases [27].
The purpose of introducing a negative cosmological constant is not only for the construc-
tion of a physical solution with finite mass. Recently, asymptotically AdS spacetimes have
attracted much attention in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence [28–30] and the
gravitational turbulent instability [31]. The conditions for the onset of the instability have
not yet been clarified [32–45], and there are still few clues to the final state. The system
provided in this paper may be treated as a macroscopic model of the final state of a system
complicated by turbulent phenomena, and we expect that our analyses will be helpful to get
useful insights into the final state of turbulent instability. In addition, the instability in the
Einstein-Vlasov system is also discussed in Refs. [8, 46, 47], and the possible relation with the
Hawking-Page transition has been pointed out in Refs. [48,49]. Another related phenomenon
is the superradiant instability of rotating black holes in asymptotically AdS spacetime, for
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