Nonstatic Spherically Symmetric Isotropic Solutions for a Perfect Fluid in General Relativity

Abstract

The present author (Wyman 1946) showed that all perfect fluids which can be represented by nonstatic, spherically symmetric, isotropic solutions of the Einstein field equations can be found by solving a nonlinear total differential equation of the second order involving. an arbitrary function 'P(r). Since then several particular solutions of this equation have been found. Although the four solutions given recently by Chakravarty et at. (1976) involve particular choices of 'P(r), none of these is the general solution of the equation that results from the specific choice of 'P(r) that was made. The present paper shows how these four general solutions are obtained.