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Vacuum solutions around spherically symmetric and static objects in the Starobinsky model

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-02-27 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

The vacuum solutions around a spherically symmetric and static object in the Starobinsky model are studied with a perturbative approach. The differential equations for the components of the metric and the Ricci scalar are obtained and solved by using the method of matched asymptotic expansions. The presence of higher order terms in this gravity model leads to the formation of a boundary layer near the surface of the star allowing the accommodation of the extra boundary conditions on the Ricci scalar. Accordingly, the metric can be different from the Schwarzschild solution near the star depending on the value of the Ricci scalar at the surface of the star while matching the Schwarzschild metric far from the star.

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@article{arxiv.1708.00345,
  title  = {Vacuum solutions around spherically symmetric and static objects in the Starobinsky model},
  author = {Sercan Çıkıntoğlu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.00345},
  year   = {2018}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures, matches the published version in PRD

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