(2+1) dimensional stars

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1998-06-26

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9806104v2

Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 044012

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

26 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX, 6 references added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.59.044012

We investigate, in the framework of (2+1) dimensional gravity, stationary, rotationally symmetric gravitational sources of the perfect fluid type, embedded in a space of arbitrary cosmological constant. We show that the matching conditions between the interior and exterior geometries imply restrictions on the physical parameters of the solutions. In particular, imposing finite sources and absence of closed timelike curves privileges negative values of the cosmological constant, yielding exterior vacuum geometries of rotating black hole type. In the special case of static sources, we prove the complete integrability of the field equations and show that the sources' masses are bounded from above and, for vanishing cosmological constant, generally equal to one. We also discuss and illustrate the stationary configurations by explicitly solving the field equations for constant mass--energy densities. If the pressure vanishes, we recover as interior geometries Godel like metrics defined on causally well behaved domains, but with unphysical values of the mass to angular momentum ratio. The introduction of pressure in the sources cures the latter problem and leads to physically more relevant models.

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