• DOI:10.1007/s12043-018-1567-4
• Corpus ID: 119210866

A family of solutions to the Einstein–Maxwell system of equations describing relativistic charged fluid spheres

@article{Komathiraj2017AFO,
  title={A family of solutions to the Einstein–Maxwell system of equations describing relativistic charged fluid spheres},
  author={K. Komathiraj and Ranjan Sharma},
  journal={Pramana},
  year={2017},
  volume={90},
  pages={1-11}
}

• K. Komathiraj, Ranjan Sharma
• Published 20 December 2017
• Physics, Mathematics
• Pramana

In this paper, we present a formalism to generate a family of interior solutions to the Einstein–Maxwell system of equations for a spherically symmetric relativistic charged fluid sphere matched to the exterior Reissner–Nordström space–time. By reducing the Einstein–Maxwell system to a recurrence relation with variable rational coefficients, we show that it is possible to obtain closed-form solutions for a specific range of model parameters. A large class of solutions obtained previously are shown to be contained in our general class of solutions. We also analyse the physical viability of our new class of solutions.