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It was recently shown, that in a class of tensor-multi-scalar theories of gravity with a nontrivial target space metric, there exist scalarized neutron star solutions. An important property of these compact objects is that the scalar charge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 Hao-Jui Kuan , Jasbir Singh , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Kostas D. Kokkotas

The hard phase model describes a relativistic barotropic fluid with sound speed equal to the speed of light. In the framework of general relativity, the motion of the fluid is coupled to the Einstein equations which describe the structure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Zeming Hao , Shuang Miao

We explore static spherically symmetric stars in the Gauss-Bonnet gravity without cosmological constant, and present an exact internal solution which attaches to the exterior vacuum solution outside stars. It turns out that the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Kang Zhou , Zhan-Ying Yang , De-Cheng Zou , Rui-Hong Yue

We investigate the geodesic structure of realistic static and spherically symmetric spacetimes embedding neutron stars in metric $f(R)$ gravity, focusing on the quadratic Starobinsky model $f(R)=aR^2$ with $a<0$. Neutron-star solutions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Néstor Rivero González , Álvaro de la Cruz Dombriz , Gonzalo J. Olmo

This study presents a static, spherically symmetric configuration in which the interior geometry of a relativistic superdense star is modeled as a three-spheroid with constant $t_1$. The model is constructed using an analytical closed-form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-07 Hemalatha R , Naren Babu O. , Narayanankutty Karuppath , Sabu M. C

The stability of the recently proposed static solutions for boson stars is analyzed. These solutions of Einstein-Klein-Gordon (EKG) equations arise from considering the interaction of a real scalar field with matter. We assume that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-14 D. S. Fontanella , A. Cabo

We investigate the equilibrium and radial stability of spherically symmetric relativistic stars, considering a polytropic equation of state (EoS), within the framework of $f(R,T)$ gravity with a conservative energy-momentum tensor. Both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-26 Juan M. Z. Pretel , Sergio E. Jorás , Ribamar R. R. Reis , José D. V. Arbañil

We ask the following question: Of the exact solutions to Einstein's equations extant in the literature, how many could represent the field associated with an isolated static spherically symmetric perfect fluid source? The candidate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. S. R. Delgaty , Kayll Lake

In the framework of Einstein's the theory of general relativity we present a new interior solution with a perfect fluid, this is constructed from the proposal of a gravitational redshift factor. The geometry is regular and its density and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-02 Gabino Estevez Delgado , Joaquin Estevez Delgado , Nadiezhda Montelongo Garcia , Modesto Pineda Duran

We obtain a new class of exact solutions for the Einstein-Maxwell system in static spherically symmetric charged star in (2+1)-dimensional gravity. In order to obtain the analytical solutions we treat the matter distribution anisotropic in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Ayan Banerjee , Farook Rahaman , Tanuka Chattopadhyay

We introduce a parametrized density-dependent speed of sound and construct an ensemble of equations of state for neutron stars which are found to closely resemble the realistic equations of state calculated using relativistic mean field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-04 Suman Pal , Gargi Chaudhuri

We study the properties of compact objects in a particular 4D Horndeski theory originating from higher dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Remarkably, an exact vacuum solution is known. This compact object differs from general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 Christos Charmousis , Antoine Lehébel , Evangelos Smyrniotis , Nikolaos Stergioulas

This thesis explores compact objects, particularly neutron stars, focusing on their properties, classification, and stability within the framework of general relativity. Two distinct studies are presented. The first study examines the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-15 A. C. Khunt

We consider stationary axisymmetric solutions of the Euler-Poisson equations, which govern the internal structure of barotropic gaseous stars. We take the general form of the equation of states which cover polytropic gaseous stars indexed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Juhi Jang , Tetu Makino

Topological stars, or top stars for brevity, are smooth horizonless static solutions of Einstein-Maxwell theory in 5-d that reduce to spherically symmetric solutions of Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton theory in 4-d. We study linear scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-04 Massimo Bianchi , Giorgio Di Russo , Alfredo Grillo , Jose Francisco Morales , Giuseppe Sudano

The relativistic equations of hydrostatic equilibrium for a spherically symmetric star, or the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations are known in higher dimensions. In this paper, these equations have been expressed in terms of parameters of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-21 Manjari Bagchi

We show that the existence of massive neutron stars and asymptotic freedom of QCD place robust upper bounds on the lowest sound speed of the ultra-dense matter unattainable in neutron stars. Centered on worst-case scenarios, our limits are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-29 Dake Zhou

The paper considers Euler-Poisson equations which govern the steady state of a self gravitating, rotating, axi-symmetric stars under the additional assumption that it is composed of incompressible stratified fluid. The original system of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Mayer Humi

In this work, we investigate hot, isentropic compact stars in the limiting cases of static and maximally rotating configurations, focusing on how variations in the symmetry energy of the equation of state derived from covariant density…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-02 Stefanos Tsiopelas , Armen Sedrakian , Micaela Oertel

In this paper we study cosmological solutions to the Einstein--Euler equations. We first establish the future stability of nonlinear perturbations of a class of homogeneous solutions to the relativistic Euler equations on fixed linearly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-25 David Fajman , Maximilian Ofner , Todd A. Oliynyk , Zoe Wyatt