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Spherical gravitational collapse and electromagnetic fields in radially homothetic spacetimes

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We consider a spherically symmetric, Petrov-type D, spacetime with hyper-surface orthogonal, radial, homothetic Killing vector. In this work, some general properties of this spacetime for non-singular and non-degenerate data are presented. We also present the source-free electromagnetic fields in this spacetime. We then discuss general astrophysical relevance of the results obtained for this spacetime.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0210020,
  title  = {Spherical gravitational collapse and electromagnetic fields in radially homothetic spacetimes},
  author = {Sanjay M Wagh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0210020},
  year   = {2007}
}

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