Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2007-01-24
Class.Quant.Grav.24:1755-1774,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Typos corrected. Accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/24/7/006
It is well-known that Birkhoff's theorem is no longer valid in theories with more than four dimensions. Thus, in these theories the effective 4-dimensional picture allows the existence of different possible, non-Schwarzschild, scenarios for the description of the spacetime outside of a spherical star, contrary to general relativity in 4D. We investigate the exterior spacetime of a spherically symmetric star in the context of Kaluza-Klein gravity. We take a well-known family of static spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein equations in an empty five-dimensional universe, and analyze possible stellar exteriors that are conformal to the metric induced on four-dimensional hypersurfaces orthogonal to the extra dimension. All these exteriors are continuously matched with the interior of the star. Then, without making any assumptions about the interior solution, we prove the following statement: the condition that in the weak-field limit we recover the usual Newtonian physics singles out an unique exterior. This exterior is "similar" to Scharzschild vacuum in the sense that it has no effect on gravitational interactions. However, it is more realistic because instead of being absolutely empty, it is consistent with the existence of quantum zero-point fields. We also examine the question of how would the deviation from the Schwarzschild vacuum exterior affect the parameters of a neutron star. In the context of a model star of uniform density, we show that the general relativity upper limit M/R < 4/9 is significantly increased as we go away from the Schwarzschild vacuum exterior. We find that, in principle, the compactness limit of a star can be larger than 1/2, without being a black hole. The generality of our approach is also discussed.
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