@incollection{discovery10175693, address = {Basel, Switzerland}, month = {January}, publisher = {Birkh{\"a}user}, note = {This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.}, booktitle = {Extended abstracts 2021/2022 - Methusalem lectures}, title = {Self-similar gravitational collapse for polytropic stars}, editor = {Joel Restrepo and Duvan Cardona and Michael Ruzhansky}, year = {2024}, author = {Schrecker, Matthew}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48579-4\%5f17}, abstract = {We describe the construction of self-similar solutions to the gravitational Euler-Poisson equations for polytropic gases, providing exact self-similar profiles for the gravitational collapse of stars. These results are based on joint work with Guo et al. (Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal. 246:957-1066, 2022).} }