On the (non)genericity of the Kiselev spacetime

Abstract

Abstract In many works in the literature, the Kiselev spacetime is interpreted as the ‘blackhole surrounded by quintessence’; an interpretation not really tenable. For example, it has recently been pointed out that the expressions ‘perfect fluid’ and ‘quintessence’ are used improperly in most of the articles that build on that spacetime; hence it is not as relevant as many of those authors might think. Here we point out that the original derivation of the Kiselev spacetime involves the use of too many coordinate conditions (equivalently, coordinate definitions conflicting in principle) as well, again strongly restricting its relevance.