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Bounds on the interior geometry and pressure profile of static fluid spheres

Damien Martin and Matt Visser

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It is a famous result of relativistic stellar structure that (under mild technical conditions) a static fluid sphere satisfies the Buchdahl–Bondi bound 2M/R < 8/9; the surprise here being that the bound is not 2M/R < 1. In this paper, we provide further generalizations of this bound by placing a number of constraints on the interior geometry (the metric components), on the local acceleration due to gravity, on various combinations of the internal density and pressure profiles and on the internal compactness 2m(r)/r of static fluid spheres. We do this by adapting the standard tool of comparing the generic fluid sphere with a Schwarzschild interior geometry of the same mass and radius—in particular, we obtain several results for the pressure profile (not merely the central pressure) that are considerably more subtle than might first be expected.


PACS

04.20.-q Classical general relativity

04.40.Dg Relativistic stars: structure, stability, and oscillations

95.30.Sf Relativity and gravitation

MSC

83Cxx General relativity

85A15 Galactic and stellar structure

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 16 (21 August 2003)

Received 10 June 2003

Published 28 July 2003



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