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On The Spherical Symmetry Of Perfect-Fluid Stellar Models In General Relativity, Joshua M Brewer Dec 2012

On The Spherical Symmetry Of Perfect-Fluid Stellar Models In General Relativity, Joshua M Brewer

Masters Theses

It is well known in Newtonian theory that static self-gravitating perfect fluids in a vacuum are necessarily spherically symmetric. The necessity of spherical symmetry of perfect-fluid static spacetimes with constant density in general relativity is shown.