Published November 21, 2004
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Journal article
Shortcuts to spherically symmetric solutions: a cautionary note
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454 (United States)
- 2. Center for Space Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 (United States)
- 3. Department of Physics, Middle East Technical University, 06531, Ankara (Turkey)
Description
Spherically symmetric solutions of generic gravitational models are optimally, and legitimately, obtained by expressing the action in terms of the surviving metric components. This shortcut is not to be overdone; however, a one-function ansatz invalidates it, as illustrated by the incorrect solutions of Wohlfarth (2004 Class. Quantum Grav. 21 1927). (comment)
Availability note (English)
Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/21/5295/cqg4_22_n01.pdf or at the Web site for the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity (ISSN 1361-6382) http://www.iop.org/Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/21/5295/cqg4_22_n01.pdf; http://www.iop.org/;
- DOI
- 10.1088/0264-9381/21/22/N01;
- PII
- S0264-9381(04)80063-7;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Journal Volume
- 21
- Journal Issue
- 22
- Journal Page Range
- p. 5295-5296
- ISSN
- 0264-9381
- CODEN
- CQGRDG
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36029233
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; METRICS; SPHERICAL CONFIGURATION; SYMMETRY
- Descriptors DEC
- CONFIGURATION