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TOV or OV?, the whole story

History and Philosophy of Physics 2016-11-22 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In a recent manuscript published in the Arxives (arXiv:1610.03049v1), it is claimed that it should be more appropriate to refer to the equation of hydrostatic equilibrium in a static spherically symmetric spacetime, supported by an isotropic perfect fluid, as the "Oppenheimer-Volkoff (OV) equation", instead of the "Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV)", as is frequently done. As we shall see in this brief note, such a claim is not supported by the existing bibliography.

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@article{arxiv.1611.06364,
  title  = {TOV or OV?, the whole story},
  author = {L. Herrera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.06364},
  year   = {2016}
}

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2 pages Latex. Contains some comments on arXiv:1610.03049