Monotone-short solutions of the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff-de Sitter equation

Abstract

It is known that spherically symmetric static solutions of the Einstein equations with a positive cosmological constant for the energy-momentum tensor of a barotropic perfect fluid are governed by the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff-de Sitter equation. Some sufficient conditions for the existence of monotone-short solutions (with finite radii) of the equation are given in this article. Then we show that the interior metric can extend to the exterior Schwarzschild-de Sitter metric on the exterior vacuum region with twice continuous differentiability. In addition, we investigate the analytic property of the solutions at the vacuum boundary. Our result (Theorem 1) can be considered as the de Sitter version of the result by Rendall and Schmidt [Classical Quantum Gravity 8, 985-1000 (1991)]. Furthermore, one can see that there are different properties of the solutions with those of the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation (with zero cosmological constant) in certain situation.