A Riccati equation in radiative stellar collapse

dc.creatorRajah, S. S.
dc.creatorMaharaj, S. D.
dc.date2008-08-15
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dc.descriptionWe model the behaviour of a relativistic spherically symmetric shearing fluid undergoing gravitational collapse with heat flux. It is demonstrated that the governing equation for the gravitational behaviour is a Riccati equation. We show that the Riccati equation admits two classes of new solutions in closed form. We regain particular models, obtained in previous investigations, as special cases. A significant feature of our solutions is the general spatial dependence in the metric functions which allows for a wider study of the physical features of the model, such as the behaviour of the causal temperature in inhomogeneous spacetimes.
dc.description13 pages, To appear in J. Math. Phys
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2101
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2101
dc.identifierJ.Math.Phys.49:012501,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1063/1.2832628
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/201904
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleA Riccati equation in radiative stellar collapse
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