Free Energy of Gravitating Fermions
arXiv:gr-qc/9706019
Abstract
We study a system of self-gravitating massive fermions in the framework of the general-relativistic Thomas-Fermi model. We postulate the free energy functional and show that its extremization is equivalent to solving the Einstein's field equations. A self-gravitating fermion gas we then describe by a set of Thomas-Fermi type self-consistency equations.
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