On surface tension for compact stars
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
In an earlier treatment it was demonstrated that general relativity gives higher values of surface tension in strange stars with quark matter than neutron stars.We generate the modified Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation to incorporate anisotropic matter and use this to show that pressure anisotropy provides for a wide range of behaviour in the surface tension than is the case with isotropic pressures. In particular it is possible that anisotropy drastically decreases the value of the surface tension.
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@article{arxiv.0708.3317,
title = {On surface tension for compact stars},
author = {R. Sharma and S. D. Maharaj},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.3317},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, To appear in J. Astrophys. Astron