Generating Static Fluid Spheres by Conformal Transformations
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-12-30 v2 Astrophysics
Abstract
We generate an explicit four-fold infinity of physically acceptable exact perfect fluid solutions of Einstein's equations by way of conformal transformations of physically unacceptable solutions (one way to view the use of isotropic coordinates). Special cases include the Schwarzschild interior solution and the Einstein static universe. The process we consider involves solving two equations of the Riccati type coupled by a single generating function rather than a specification of one of the two metric functions.
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@article{arxiv.0808.3515,
title = {Generating Static Fluid Spheres by Conformal Transformations},
author = {Jonathan Loranger and Kayll Lake},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.3515},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages revtex4, two figures, Final form to appear in Phys. Rev. D