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Uniform density static fluid sphere in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity and its universality

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-05-27 v5 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In Newtonian theory, gravity inside a constant density static sphere is independent of spacetime dimension. Interestingly this general result is also carried over to Einsteinian as well as higher order Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (Lovelock) gravity notwithstanding their nonlinearity. We prove that the necessary and sufficient condition for universality of Schwarzschild interior solution describing a uniform density sphere for all n4n\geq4 is that its density is constant.

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@article{arxiv.1001.3922,
  title  = {Uniform density static fluid sphere in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity and its universality},
  author = {N. Dadhich and A. Molina and A. Khugaev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.3922},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

5 pages, title and abstract modified, one author added, considerable improvement in clarity and precision, one reference added, result unchanged. version to agree with the published paper in Phys. Rev. D

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