Pattern for a star filled with imperfect fluid

Abstract

A static, spherically symmetric spacetime with negative pressures is conjectured inside a star. The gravitational field is repulsive and so a central singularity is avoided. The positive energy density and the pressures of the imperfect fluid are finite everywhere. The Tolman-Komar energy of the space is negative, as for a de Sitter geometry. From the Darmois-Israel junction conditions on the star surface one finds the constant length $b$ from the metric and the expression of the surface tension $\sigma$ of the thin shell separating the interior from the Schwarzschild exterior. Some properties of the timelike and null geodesics in the Painleve-Gullstrand coordinates are investigated.