In this paper, a quantitative characterization for the evolutionary sequence of stellar self-gravitating system is investigated, focusing on the pre-collapse stage of the long-term dynamical evolution. In particular, we consider the quasi-equilibrium behaviors of the N -body systems in the setup of the so-called Antonov problem, i.e., self-gravitating N -body system confined in an adiabatic wal...

A vector equilibrium problem is generally defined by a bifunction which takes values in a partially ordered vector space. In particular, when this space is endowed with a componentwise ordering, the vector equilibrium problem can be decomposed into a family of equilibrium subproblems, each of them being governed by a bifunction obtained from the initial one by selecting some of its scalar compo...