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The interior Schwarzschild metric for a static,spherically symmetric perfect fluid can be parametrizedwith two independent functions of the radial coordinate.These functions are easily expressed in terms of (radial) integrals involving the fluidenergy density and pressure. The pressure is, however,not independent, but is determined in terms of thedensity by one of Einstein's equations, theOppenheimer–Volkov (OV) equation. An approximate integral to theOV equation is presented which is accurate for slowlyvarying, realistic, densities, and exact in theconstant-density limit. It makes it possible to findcompletely integrated accurate solutions to the interiorSchwarzschild metric in terms of the density only. Somepost-Newtonian consequences of the solution are given aswell as the resulting general relativistic pressure for an energy density∝r-1/2.
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Essen, H. Interior Schwarzschild Problem and Its Integration. International Journal of Theoretical Physics 37, 875–889 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026680816151
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026680816151