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In General Relativity, Birkhoff's theorem asserts that any spherically symmetric vacuum solution must be static and asymptotically flat. In this paper, we study the validity of Birkhoff's theorem for a broad class of modified gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-07 Rajes Ghosh , Akash K Mishra , Avijit Chowdhury

In this paper, we systematically study spherically symmetric static spacetimes in the framework of Einstein-aether theory, and pay particular attention to the existence of black holes (BHs). In the present studies we first clarify several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-18 Chao Zhang , Xiang Zhao , Kai Lin , Shaojun Zhang , Wen Zhao , Anzhong Wang

Space-time is spherically symmetric if it admits the group of SO(3) as a group of isometries,with the group orbits spacelike two-surfaces. These orbits are necessarily two-surface of constant positive curavture. One commonly chooses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Amir H. Abbassi

Birkhoff's theorem is a classic result that characterizes locally spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein equations. In this paper, we illustrate the consequences of its local nature for the cases of vacuum and positive cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Kristin Schleich , Donald M. Witt

We provide a simple, unified proof of Birkhoff's theorem for the vacuum and cosmological constant case, emphasizing its local nature. We discuss its implications for the maximal analytic extensions of Schwarzschild, Schwarzschild(-anti)-de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 Kristin Schleich , Donald M. Witt

Birkhoff's theorem for spherically symmetric vacuum spacetimes is a key theorem in studying local systems in general relativity theory. However realistic local systems are only approximately spherically symmetric and only approximately…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Rituparno Goswami , George F. R. Ellis

Generalized from the so-called teleparallel gravity which is exactly equivalent to general relativity, the $f(T)$ gravity has been proposed as an alternative gravity model to account for the dark energy phenomena. In this letter we prove…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xin-he Meng , Ying-bin Wang

Three dimensional space is said to be spherically symmetric if it admits SO(3) as the group of isometries. Under this symmetry condition, the Einsteins Field equations for vacuum, yields the Schwarzschild Metric as the unique solution,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Avijit Mukherjee , Subham B Roy

The Einstein-Aether (EA) theory belongs to a class of modified gravity theories characterized by the introduction of a time-like unit vector field, called aether. In this scenario, a preferred frame arises as a natural consequence of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 M. Campista , R. Chan , M. F. A. da Silva , O. Goldoni , V. H. Satheeshkumar , Jaime F. Villas da Rocha

We study spherically symmetric spacetimes in Einstein-aether theory in three different coordinate systems, the isotropic, Painlev\`e-Gullstrand, and Schwarzschild coordinates, in which the aether is always comoving, and present both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-30 Jacob Oost , Shinji Mukohyama , Anzhong Wang

We present a novel approach to establish the Birkhoff's theorem validity in the so-called quadratic Poincar\'e Gauge theories of gravity. By obtaining the field equations via the Palatini formalism, we find paradigmatic scenarios where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-05 Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Francisco J. Maldonado Torralba

According to Birkhoff's theorem the only spherically symmetric solution of the vacuum Einstein field equations is the Schwarzschild solution. Inspite of imposing asymptotically flatness and staticness as initial conditions we obtain that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Amir H. Abbassi

In the present work we analyze all the possible spherically symmetric exterior vacuum solutions allowed by the Einstein-Aether theory with static aether. We show that there are four classes of solutions corresponding to different values of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-16 R. Chan , M. F. A. da Silva , V. H. Satheeshkumar

In this work we present all the possible solutions for a static cylindrical symmetric spacetime in the Einstein-Aether (EA) theory. As far as we know, this is the first work in the literature that considers cylindrically symmetric solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 R. Chan , M. F. A. da Silva

By using of the Euler-Lagrange equations, we find a static spherically symmetric solution in the Einstein-aether theory with the coupling constants restricted. The solution is similar to the Reissner-Nordstrom solution in that it has an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-14 Changjun Gao , You-Gen Shen

A static spherically symmetric metric in Einstein-scalar-tensor gravity theory with a scalar field potential $V[\phi]$ is non-singular for all real values of the coordinates. It does not have a black hole event horizon and there is no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-11 J. W. Moffat

The time independent spherically symmetric solutions of General Relativity (GR) coupled to a dynamical unit timelike vector are studied. We find there is a three-parameter family of solutions with this symmetry. Imposing asymptotic flatness…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-05 Christopher Eling , Ted Jacobson

We generalize Birkhoff's Theorem in the following fashion. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for any spherically symmetric space-time to be static in terms of the eigenvalues of the stress-energy tensor. In particular, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 Joel L. Weiner

We show that there is a phenomenologically and theoretically consistent limit of the generic Einstein-Aether theory in which the Einstein-Aether field equations reduce to Einstein field equations with a perfect fluid distribution sourced by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-20 Metin Gurses , Cetin Senturk , Bayram Tekin

We classify the existent Birkhoff-type theorems into four classes: First, in field theory, the theorem states the absence of helicity 0- and spin 0-parts of the gravitational field. Second, in relativistic astrophysics, it is the statement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-25 Hans-Jürgen Schmidt
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