Global SSS space-time models: Ma and Q

Abstract

To make sense of a global space-time model and to give a meaning to the coordinates that we use, a choice of a constant curvature space-metric of reference it is as much necessary as it is a choice of units of mass, length and time. The choice we make leads to contradict the belief that the exterior domain of a Static Spherically Symmetric (SSS) space-time model of finite radius R depends only on the active mass Ma of the source. In fact it depends on two parameters Ma and a new one Q. We prove that both can be calculated as volume integrals extended over the whole space. We integrate Einstein's equations numerically in two simple cases: assuming either that the source of perfect fluid has constant proper density or that the pressure depends linearly on the proper density. We confirm a preceding paper showing that very compact objects can have active masses Ma much greater than their proper masses Mp, and we conjecture that the mass point Fock's model can be understood as the limit of a sequence of compact models when both Q and its radius shrink to zero and the pressure equals the density.

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