1202.0240 (Rituparno Goswami et al.)

Birkhoff Theorem and Matter    [PDF]

Rituparno Goswami, George F. R. Ellis

Birkhoff's theorem for spherically symmetric vacuum spacetimes is a key theorem in studying local systems in general relativity theory. However realistic local systems are only approximately spherically symmetric and only approximately vacuum. In a previous paper, we showed the theorem remains approximately true in an approximately spherically symmetric vacuum space time. In this paper we prove the converse case: the theorem remains approximately true in a spherically symmetric, approximately vacuum space time.

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