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Conformal coordinates of a constant density star

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-07-02 v1

Abstract

It is well known that the interior of a constant density spherical star is conformally flat. In this paper we obtain the coordinate system in which the conformal flatness of the metric manifests itself. In a similar way, we also construct such coordinates for Robertson Walker metric.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0706.4324,
  title  = {Conformal coordinates of a constant density star},
  author = {Karthik Shankar and Bernard. F. Whiting},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.4324},
  year   = {2007}
}
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