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gr-qc2007★ 11 cited
Self force of a static electric charge near a Schwarzschild Star
Karthik Shankar, Bernard F. Whiting
When a charge is held static near a constant density spherical star, it experiences a self-force which is significantly different from the force it would experience when placed nea…
gr-qc2007★ 2 cited
Conformal coordinates of a constant density star
Karthik Shankar, Bernard. F. Whiting
It is well known that the interior of a constant density spherical star is conformally flat. In this paper we obtain the coordinate system in which the conformal flatness of the me…