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An exact solution of Einstein's field equations for an isentropic fluid sphere is examined. It turns out that the crucial factor for the physical properties and the stability of this model is the degree of incompressibility. Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the weak and the strong energy conditions to be fulfilled and for the speed of sound to be less than the speed of light. The speed of sound always has a minimum at the center of the fluid sphere. But two possibilities exist: either the speed of sound is increasing all the way outwards to the surface of the sphere, or the speed of sound is first increasing, then reaching a maximum when still inside the fluid sphere, and thereafter decreasing outwards to the surface. The adiabatic index is investigated and is found to be increasing outwards for the actual degrees of compressibility. This adiabatic index is always greater than unity, and the temperature is thus decreasing throughout the sphere. The necessary and sufficient condition for the adiabatic index to be greater than 4/3 is also given. (This is a necessary condition for the fluid sphere to be stable.) Chandrasekhar's pulsation equation with boundary conditions is investigated, and the fluid sphere is found to bestable if and only if the degree of incompressibility is greater than a certain value.
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Dedicated to the memory of the late Bronislaw Kuchowicz.
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Knutsen, H. Some physical properties and stability of an exact model of a relativistic star. Astrophys Space Sci 140, 385–401 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00638992
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