Plausible families of compact objects with a nonlocal equation of state

Abstract

We present the plausibility of some models emerging from an algorithm devised to generate a one-parameter family of interior solutions for the Einstein equations. We explore how their physical variables change as the family parameter varies. The models studied correspond to anisotropic spherical matter configurations having a nonlocal equation of state. This particular type of equation of state, with no causality problems, provides at a given point the radial pressure not only as a function of the density but as a functional of the enclosed matter distribution. We have found that there are several model-independent tendencies as the parameter increases: the equation of state tends to be stiffer and the total mass becomes half of its external radius. Profiting from the concept of cracking of materials in general relativity, we obtain that these models become more potentially stable as the family parameter increases.