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Birkhoff Theorem and Matter

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-04 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

Birkhoff's theorem for spherically symmetric vacuum spacetimes is a key theorem in studying local systems in general relativity theory. However realistic local systems are only approximately spherically symmetric and only approximately vacuum. In a previous paper, we showed the theorem remains approximately true in an approximately spherically symmetric vacuum space time. In this paper we prove the converse case: the theorem remains approximately true in a spherically symmetric, approximately vacuum space time.

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@article{arxiv.1202.0240,
  title  = {Birkhoff Theorem and Matter},
  author = {Rituparno Goswami and George F. R. Ellis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.0240},
  year   = {2015}
}

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