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Shortcuts to Spherically Symmetric Solutions: A Cautionary Note

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

Spherically symmetric solutions of generic gravitational models are optimally, and legitimately, obtained by expressing the action in terms of the two surviving metric components. This shortcut is not to be overdone, however: a one-function ansatz invalidates it, as illustrated by the incorrect solutions of [1].

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0404120,
  title  = {Shortcuts to Spherically Symmetric Solutions: A Cautionary Note},
  author = {S. Deser and J. Franklin and B. Tekin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0404120},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

2 pages. Amplified derivation, accepted for publication in Class Quant Grav

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