%0 Book Section %A Schrecker, Matthew %B Extended abstracts 2021/2022 - Methusalem lectures %C Basel, Switzerland %D 2024 %E Restrepo, Joel %E Cardona, Duvan %E Ruzhansky, Michael %F discovery:10175693 %I Birkhäuser %T Self-similar gravitational collapse for polytropic stars %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10175693/ %X 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). %Z This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.