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Smooth static spherical geometry and state domain
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2 · Summary
This is a mathematical page about a specified smooth, static, spherically symmetric metric and its state profiles. The exact product manifold, areal-radius form, signature, lapse, diagonal isotropic source tensor, mass function and formal SI dimensions are defined in Smooth static spherical geometry and state domain. The countable-choice convention is only the inherited from the cited smooth Lorentzian and tensor-bundle suppliers; no physical postulate or empirical claim is made.
The reduction lemma Complete spherical Einstein and conservation reduction computes the signed Einstein components from the metric and proves both directions between the full smooth component equations and the mass, lapse and pressure equations on . Its converse uses the contracted Bianchi identity only after the mass, lapse and conservation equations hold. It does not assert an equation for anisotropic, rotating, nonstatic, weak, or distributional sources.
The center result Even radial coefficients give a C² Cartesian center supplies the explicit even-radial-to-Cartesian calculation. The local theorem Regular-center TOV local existence and dependence constructs a positive-lapse, positive- center by a Volterra integral contraction, gives uniform local dependence on central pressure, and permits continuation only while the positive- EOS domain is compactly retained. The exact constant-density result Exact regular constant-density solution with verified matching checks the pressure, lapse, mass and vacuum match for the family-specific range ; it proves neither a general Buchdahl theorem nor realistic causal transport.
Finally, Proper spherical entropy and particle constrained functionals defines proper spherical entropy, particle number and mass-energy on a supplied local state chart. The theorem Constrained entropy criticality, Tolman–Klein equivalence and TOV consequence proves the first-variation equivalence with the Tolman/Klein products and derives the TOV pressure equation under its fixed-radius, positive-, state-chart and boundary-normalization hypotheses. It proves criticality, not a maximum, existence theorem, or dynamical stability.
3 · Logical flowchart
4 · Definitions, postulates, theorems and proofs
Smooth static spherical geometry and state domain
Definition
Assume the countable-choice convention of The Axiom of Countable Choice () for the canonical smooth tangent- and tensor-bundle structures in Smooth time-oriented Lorentzian four-manifolds: the geometric objects of the model. Fix positive formal parameters and with SI dimensions and . In this mathematical definition they are fixed parameters, not derived quantities, and no numerical or empirical value is asserted. Let be a nonempty open interval for a length coordinate , and define the corresponding time coordinate , measured in seconds. Let be the coordinate on , and let be the unit round sphere with the induced smooth round metric of The round metric on the sphere as an induced metric. On the product smooth four-manifold , using the canonical product smooth structure of Products of smooth manifolds have a canonical product smooth structure, define, for with , Set as time orientation. The signature convention is , and are measured in metres, the line element has units , and and are dimensionless. The sphere at fixed has induced metric . In spherical coordinates its area element is by The round metric on the sphere as an induced metric, so ; hence is the areal radius. The flow of is translation in and preserves because its coefficients are independent of ; here a Killing field means a vector field whose local flow preserves the metric. Moreover, , so is normal to the hypersurfaces . In this definition, the metric is static in the precise sense that it has a timelike Killing field normal to such hypersurfaces; is timelike because .
A static isotropic diagonal source field is a smooth tensor field of type in the sense of Tensor fields of type (r,s) on a Lorentzian four-manifold and their components, defined globally using the product splitting by In every standard spherical chart its mixed components are where represent energy density and isotropic pressure, respectively, under the formal physical reading, with . The associated covariant tensor has components ; it is smooth and symmetric because both component matrices are diagonal, as defined for covariant -tensor fields in Smooth covariant 2-tensor fields on a smooth manifold. Define the mass function by which has units . No Einstein equation, equation of state, central regularity, physical applicability, or empirical claim is part of this definition. The Einstein tensor and component conventions used later are those of The Riemann curvature operator and the derived Ricci, scalar and Einstein tensors and Tensor fields of type (r,s) on a Lorentzian four-manifold and their components.
Remarks
The coordinate domain excludes ; a regular center is a separate conclusion and is defined by the center regularity result and the local-existence theorem on this page. Countable Choice is inherited only through the stated canonical smooth-bundle suppliers; the coordinate formulas below add no stronger choice principle.
Even radial coefficients give a C² Cartesian center
Statement
Let , let be even, and let carry its standard Euclidean coordinates and radius from The Euclidean inner product on . Then is on , and each component is there. In particular, if an areal spherical spatial metric has with even and , then its Cartesian coefficients extend across the center. This result is a coordinate regularity statement; it asserts no field equation or physical claim.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: , even functions on , and the Euclidean norm on .
The Euclidean radius is , with and for (The Euclidean inner product on , The chain rule for total derivatives: , Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when , Continuity and derivatives of positive-base real powers).
If is even, then , the derivative definition gives as , and Peano's Taylor theorem gives (Peano's form: the normalized Taylor remainder tends to zero).
In Euclidean polar coordinates on , the Euclidean metric is with the unit round sphere metric (The round metric on the sphere as an induced metric).
Proof
For , the chain rule and product rule in [F1] give Evenness implies . By [F2], and as . Thus is differentiable at with gradient and Hessian . Since the displayed first and second derivatives tend to those values as , they extend continuously to , proving .
For , Evenness gives , so [F2] yields and . Differentiating the displayed formula once more, the terms without a factor or are ; every remaining term is a sum of terms containing either one factor or times , or two such factors times or . Since is and , are bounded near , these remaining terms tend to . The Peano expansion in [F2] gives , hence derivative and second derivative at . Thus the first and second derivatives extend continuously and is .
For , write and use the polar identity from [F3]. Therefore because . The quotient is even since , so step 1.2 proves the spatial extension. The time coefficient extends by step 1.1 whenever is even . This proves the metric clause.
Complete spherical Einstein and conservation reduction
Statement
Assume with exactly as in The Axiom of Countable Choice (). Let be an open interval; let the state domain, metric, mixed source tensor, mass function, units, and signature be those of Smooth static spherical geometry and state domain. Write , and let be the mixed Einstein tensor defined from the signed curvature convention in The Riemann curvature operator and the derived Ricci, scalar and Einstein tensors. Suppose are smooth on and . As a conditional mathematical system, assume the component equations Then on , Conversely, if these three ordinary differential equations hold with , then every mixed Einstein component satisfies . The identity used for this converse is the geometric theorem of The second Bianchi identity and the vanishing divergence of the Einstein tensor, not a field equation or empirical premise. This lemma is a pure conditional calculation and makes no claim that the model describes nature.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: as declared in the Statement; an open interval ; smooth with ; the static spherical data in Smooth static spherical geometry and state domain; and, for the forward direction, the conditional equations .
The static spherical metric, diagonal mixed source, signature , mass definition , and formal SI dimensions are those in Smooth static spherical geometry and state domain.
With curvature convention , the Christoffel symbols are (Existence and uniqueness of the metric-selected connection of a nondegenerate metric, and its extension to tensor fields), the coordinate curvature is (Tensoriality of the curvature, its coordinate formula and its point-normal metric formula), and with (The Riemann curvature operator and the derived Ricci, scalar and Einstein tensors).
The contracted Bianchi identity is for every index (The second Bianchi identity and the vanishing divergence of the Einstein tensor).
The field equation is a mathematical hypothesis for the forward implication only; it is not adopted or proved as a claim about nature.
The smooth tangent- and tensor-bundle construction in the geometric supplier chain assumes as recorded in The Axiom of Countable Choice (); no stronger choice axiom is assumed.
Proof
In a regular spherical chart away from the angular coordinate poles, the metric in [F1] has the following nonzero Christoffel symbols, with lower-index symmetry understood: They follow by inserting the diagonal metric entries and their derivatives into the Christoffel formula in [F2]. The identities obtained below depend only on and are tensor-component identities, so their validity extends across the two angular coordinate poles by smoothness.
Substituting the symbols of step 1.1 in the curvature formula of [F2], contracting as in [F2], and simplifying gives Hence , , and These equalities use only the displayed finite component formula, the listed Christoffels, and the contractions defining ; no spherical field equation is cited.
For the diagonal tensor of [F1], its radial divergence is Indeed, in , the derivative term is , the trace term contributes , and the last term contributes . Adding the three contributions gives . The other three components of vanish: for there is no time dependence and every mixed time-radial Christoffel is zero; for , angular derivatives vanish and the only polar trace term cancels the matching diagonal connection term, while the component has no nonzero trace term.
The equation in [A1] is . Multiplying by yields . Differentiating gives .
The equation in [A1] is . Solving for and substituting and gives
By [F3] and [A1], . Step 2.2 therefore gives . Substitution of step 3.2 yields the displayed TOV pressure equation.
Conversely, the mass and lapse equations give the and equations by reversing steps 3.1–2.2. Define . Then , and its only possible nonzero entries are the equal angular diagonal entries , by step 2.1. The pressure equation and step 2.2 give for every , so [F3] gives . In particular, the radial component is . Since , it follows that both angular entries vanish. Thus and the full mixed field equation holds.
Remarks
- The claim is conditional mathematics. Its assumption is inherited exactly from the smooth tangent/tensor-bundle and curvature suppliers; no full Axiom of Choice is invoked, and the coordinate algebra performs no selection.
- The direct component computation verifies all independent Einstein components on . The converse uses Bianchi only after the mass, lapse, and conservation equations hold.
- The equation is confined to a smooth isotropic static spherical domain with ; it says nothing about anisotropic, rotating, nonstatic, weak, or distributional sources.
Proper spherical entropy and particle constrained functionals
Definition
Assume as in The Axiom of Countable Choice (). Fix , an open state chart , and a function with . The coordinates on are energy density in and particle number density in ; the entropy density has units . Define the local temperature, chemical potential, and pressure functions by These are functions on ; their formal SI dimensions are , , and , respectively. By definition , and differentiation gives and on the chart.
Let be restrictions to of even functions on an open interval containing , positive on , with image in a compact subset of . This evenness is the center regularity convention. With , define Equivalently, on , where The compact-parameter differentiation theorem Leibniz's rule on a compact rectangle: an interior parameter derivative with a continuous extension may be passed through a Riemann integral makes even . Therefore Even radial coefficients give a C² Cartesian center gives the corresponding Cartesian spatial metric coefficients. Assume on . The displayed integrals are Riemann integrals in the Darboux convention of The lower and upper Darboux integrals of a bounded on as and , Darboux integrability as their equality, and the notation ; their continuous integrands are integrable by A continuous function on is Riemann integrable, by Heine-Cantor and Riemann's criterion, and is continuous on this positive range by Continuity and derivatives of positive-base real powers. Use the spatial metric on , where is the unit round sphere metric used in Smooth static spherical geometry and state domain. Here has coefficients and the Cartesian center extension just established; no globally smooth static state is required. Define its volume density in a spherical coordinate chart by . Since , integration over the unit sphere gives the radial density . This uses the same spatial metric formula as the smooth static domain, at the present regularity. Define the proper entropy, proper particle number, and spherical mass-energy functionals Their formal dimensions are , , and . These are mathematical functionals on the supplied state chart and positive- profile domain; they assert no entropy law, equilibrium, maximum, dynamics, or empirical fact.
Remarks
The energy functional is the spherical mass-energy constraint , not a generic additive gravitational energy on arbitrary spacetimes. No relation between this state chart and any particular material equation of state is assumed beyond the displayed definitions.
Regular-center TOV local existence and dependence
Statement
Assume , where is exactly The Axiom of Countable Choice () and is inherited from the smooth Lorentzian/tensor suppliers. Let be on an open interval , let be a nonempty compact interval, and choose such that the closed -neighbourhood of lies in . Fix and use the units and signature of Smooth static spherical geometry and state domain. Put , with formal units ; has units . There is , common to all , such that for each there is a unique pair of even continuous functions on with and satisfying They are , , , , and on . Define Then satisfies the mass, pressure, and lapse equations of Complete spherical Einstein and conservation reduction for . The metric extends across as a Lorentzian metric in Cartesian spatial coordinates, with and lapse ; this is the regular-center conclusion in this item. On the common interval, depend continuously in the uniform norm on . For , the solution continues past any finite endpoint at which its graph remains in a compact subset of No assertion is made that every equation of state reaches a zero-pressure surface, avoids a horizon globally, or gives a dynamically stable solution.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The state domain and SI conventions of Smooth static spherical geometry and state domain, of The Axiom of Countable Choice (), the smooth positive function on , the compact central-pressure interval , the margin , and .
For a smooth isotropic spherical profile, the mass and lapse equations and the pressure equation are exactly those in Complete spherical Einstein and conservation reduction. With they become , , and for .
If even functions are used in and , these extend to the Cartesian center; for the spatial metric coefficients are (Even radial coefficients give a C² Cartesian center).
A continuous function on a compact interval is Riemann integrable, and the first fundamental theorem differentiates its variable-endpoint integral at points of continuity (A continuous function on is Riemann integrable, by Heine-Cantor and Riemann's criterion, The first fundamental theorem: if is integrable on and continuous at , then ; in particular a continuous has as a primitive). A continuous parameter integrand with continuous parameter derivative on a compact rectangle can be differentiated through its Riemann integral (Leibniz's rule on a compact rectangle: an interior parameter derivative with a continuous extension may be passed through a Riemann integral).
If a locally Lipschitz ODE solution remains in a compact subset of its open time-state domain near a finite endpoint, it extends beyond that endpoint (Compact continuation for locally Lipschitz ODEs: a solution whose graph stays in a compact subset of the domain near a finite endpoint extends past it clause 1).
Finite componentwise sums and products and compositions of Euclidean maps are ( Euclidean maps are closed under componentwise algebra and composition); total derivatives obey the chain rule (The chain rule for total derivatives: ), the reciprocal map is smooth on (Continuity and derivatives of positive-base real powers), and scalar products and quotients obey the ordinary derivative rules (Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when ).
Closed bounded subsets of are compact, and every continuous real-valued function on a nonempty compact subset attains finite extrema (For a nonempty subset of with , compactness, closedness and boundedness, pseudocompactness, and attainment of extrema by every continuous real-valued function are equivalent).
The one-dimensional mean value theorem bounds increments by a derivative bound on each closed interval (The mean value theorem, as the case of Cauchy's: for continuous on with and differentiable on there is with ).
The second FTC evaluates an integral of a continuous derivative; in particular and (The second fundamental theorem: if is differentiable on with and is integrable, then ).
Integral monotonicity and nonnegativity hold for integrable functions on an ordered compact interval; in particular, if and , then by comparing with and (If on and both are integrable then ; and ). Linearity permits subtraction and scalar multiplication under the integral (Integrable functions on form a set closed under sums and scalar multiples, and ). Reversing endpoints changes only the sign, and an equal-endpoint integral is zero (The integral with oriented limits: and ), so absolute estimates use the interval with increasingly ordered endpoints.
A continuous real function on a compact real interval is uniformly continuous (Heine-Cantor in : a continuous real function on a compact subset of is uniformly continuous).
The countable-choice use is the canonical smooth tangent/tensor-bundle structure inherited through The Axiom of Countable Choice (); no full Axiom of Choice is used. The integral contraction and its iteration below make no selection from an infinite family.
Proof
Write and set ; the margin hypothesis puts in , and [F6] makes it compact. Thus and exist and are finite. Put , and first choose with . The set is closed and bounded in , hence compact by [F6]. On , the denominator of is at least , so are continuous there by [F5]; [F6] supplies finite bounds for , for , and for . Set . Choose so that and .
For each , let be the closed sup-norm ball of radius about the constant function in . It is complete: a sup-norm Cauchy sequence has pointwise limits in the closed real interval , the convergence is uniform by the Cauchy bound, and its uniform limit is continuous. For define The function is uniformly continuous on by [F10]. Because for , [F9] bounds by times , which tends to zero; hence is continuous. The integrand defining is then continuous, so [F3] makes that map continuous as well. By [F9] and [F8], ; hence . The mean value theorem [F7], linearity and [F9] applied to the bounds give Applying [F7] successively in the and variables gives for state pairs in . For each endpoint , [F9] bounds the absolute integral of or of the difference by the corresponding constant times the integral of over the interval between and . This last integral is by [F8]; reversing endpoints changes only the integral sign, and the case is zero. Hence the bounds in step 1.1, [F9] and [F8] give and . Thus maps the ball to itself and is a contraction.
Iterate canonically from , . The differences satisfy , so the geometric tail estimate makes Cauchy in the complete ball. Its uniform limit is continuous and remains in the ball. The contraction estimate makes continuous, hence ; any two fixed points have distance at most half their distance and therefore coincide. If is even, then is even, is even, and its product with is odd, so is even. Every iterate and hence is even; the fixed point equations give the two displayed integral identities.
The first FTC in [F3] makes continuously differentiable and yields , including . The parameter-integral theorem [F3], together with the composition and algebra rules [F5], applied repeatedly on , shows that whenever , is because has continuous -derivatives through order . The denominator is bounded below by , so is ; the integral equation then gives . Induction proves are smooth and even. Rewriting the integral as , then applying the product rule and the first FTC gives for ; the pressure equation is the defining derivative of .
The same and contraction factor work for every central value in . Subtracting the fixed-point equations for gives hence . The integral formula for , [F9] and [F8] give . The lapse integrand and its derivatives are continuous and bounded on the same compact set by [F6]. Applying [F7] successively in bounds its state increment by a constant times ; integrating over with [F9] yields for a finite . Thus the solution map is continuous in the sup norm. If another regular-center solution stays in the same pressure ball, integrating its mass and pressure equations yields the same two fixed-point equations; uniqueness in step 3.1 proves it is this solution.
Set and define by the displayed integral. Then , is smooth and even, and . The product rule and the equation for give from ; also , so is the lapse equation in [F1]. Apply [F2] with and to obtain the Cartesian metric extension. Its center coefficients are and , so it is Lorentzian at the center.
For , let and define the vector field By [F5], is on the open set . Around each point of choose a closed time-state cylinder . It is a closed bounded subset of , hence compact by [F6]. The state derivative of is continuous there, and its operator norm is continuous, so [F6] gives a finite uniform bound . For each fixed , the state ball is convex and open; the mean-value inequality [thm-mean-value-inequality-for-total-derivatives] gives on it. Thus is locally Lipschitz in the state variable, locally uniformly in time, as required by [F4]. If the solution graph remains in a compact subset of near a finite endpoint, [F4] extends past that endpoint. The integral defining then also extends. This is only the stated compact-interior continuation criterion; it gives no global surface or stability claim.
Remarks
The integral contraction resolves the coordinate singularity at directly. The ordinary ODE continuation theorem is used only on , where the vector field is smooth. The proof is conditional mathematics under the stated EOS and convention; it does not assert that an observed star follows this model.
Exact regular constant-density solution with verified matching
Statement
Assume exactly as in The Axiom of Countable Choice () and use the geometry and units of Smooth static spherical geometry and state domain. Let be a constant mass density in , in metres, in , in kilograms, and For , define Set for and for . For , also set , , , and . Then , , the interior lapse is positive, and the central pressure is finite and equals . The interior and exterior fields solve the spherical Einstein and conservation system of Complete spherical Einstein and conservation reduction on their open pieces; the interior equations extend to the center by continuity. The interior metric has a Cartesian center; the interior and exterior join at as a metric that is piecewise , with matching first derivatives at the interface. For this interface assertion, a radial distribution on an open radial-coordinate interval is a linear functional on , the space of smooth real functions with compact support in , such that for every compact there exist and an integer satisfying whenever , the Dirac distribution is , and a delta-supported surface stress means a source term . The prescribed piecewise source has no such term. The proof also shows that is necessary and sufficient for these algebraic formulas to give real interior data with , finite nonnegative pressure, and positive lapse throughout . This range is specific to the constant-density family and is not a general Buchdahl theorem.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: , , , , the metric convention of Smooth static spherical geometry and state domain, of The Axiom of Countable Choice (), and the reduction and radial regularity results below.
The metric signature, source components, curvature sign, and SI units are those of Smooth static spherical geometry and state domain; the spherical Einstein/conservation system is equivalent on to the mass, lapse, and pressure equations in Complete spherical Einstein and conservation reduction.
For with even and , the spatial metric has the Cartesian form , and even radial lapse coefficients extend (Even radial coefficients give a C² Cartesian center).
The real-power derivative formula gives on ; repeated differentiation gives smoothness of positive-base powers (Continuity and derivatives of positive-base real powers).
Total derivatives obey the chain rule, scalar products and quotients obey the usual derivative rules, and finite componentwise sums, products, and compositions of Euclidean maps are (The chain rule for total derivatives: , Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when , Euclidean maps are closed under componentwise algebra and composition).
A continuous integrand on a compact interval is integrable, and its variable-endpoint integral has derivative equal to the integrand at every continuity point (A continuous function on is Riemann integrable, by Heine-Cantor and Riemann's criterion, The first fundamental theorem: if is integrable on and continuous at , then ; in particular a continuous has as a primitive).
A smooth real function with nonzero derivative at a point has a smooth local inverse there (Choice-free smooth inverse function theorem in Euclidean space).
For the branch-range claim, for any real consider the same algebraic formulas wherever their square roots are real; a regular positive branch means that the interior has , finite , and positive lapse at every radius in . No empirical stellar model or causal transport law is assumed.
The geometric suppliers use as specified in The Axiom of Countable Choice (); no full Axiom of Choice is used.
Proof
Since , . On , , so and . Thus the lapse and pressure are finite and the lapse is positive; , , and .
To check sharpness, first take . At , and , so the pressure denominator vanishes at the center while its numerator is positive, and . If , then and , whereas ; continuity gives with , where the pressure denominator vanishes and the lapse is zero. If , then ; if , is not real. Thus no gives a regular positive branch, while step 1.1 proves that every does.
The mass formula gives . The functions are even and smooth near because and . Writing with , [F2] gives a Cartesian center for the interior metric. The Einstein equations hold at the center by continuity of the curvature and source components from .
For , the chain, product, and quotient rules [F4], together with [F3], give Also , so . Using and , direct simplification yields where . Substituting the displayed lapse into is the TOV pressure equation in [F1], so the interior mass, lapse, and pressure equations all hold.
For , , , and since . The chain and quotient rules [F4] give , so the vacuum mass and lapse equations hold and the pressure equation is .
Let on the interior side and on the exterior side. Both formulas are smooth and positive on separate open neighborhoods of . By [F3]–[F4], their negative one-half powers are smooth there. For a common value , define . By [F5] these functions have derivatives ; repeated differentiation of these identities makes smooth. By [F6], after shrinking the neighborhoods, each has a smooth local inverse satisfying . Use for the interior and for the exterior as the matching chart, so and on both sides. At , [F1] gives and both lapse values equal . The lapse derivatives with respect to agree by steps 2.3–2.4: . Hence in the matching chart the coefficients and have matching values and first derivatives, while on both sides. Thus the metric is and piecewise in that chart. For a piecewise coefficient with one-sided values and derivatives, define for , and define and . These functionals satisfy the stated test bounds: for nonempty compact , choose a compact interval containing and let bound there on both sides of the interface. For , , , and ; hence the orders suffice. Also and , with both evaluations zero if ; empty admits only the zero test function. Linearity follows from these formulas. Integration by parts on the two sides gives , where and similarly for . The matched metric coefficients and first derivatives make both jumps zero. The Christoffel coefficients are formed from the metric, its inverse, and its first derivatives; since the metric is nondegenerate, they are continuous and piecewise . With the curvature convention of [F1], its coordinate formula on the smooth sides is ; in this interface calculation take those derivatives in the distributional sense just defined. Since the Christoffel coefficients are continuous, the curvature formula produces no surface-supported term. The source fields are piecewise ordinary functions and likewise contain no delta-supported surface stress.
Remarks
The pressure restriction and endpoint divergence belong to this explicit uniform-density branch. The areal radius is used as a smooth coordinate on each side; the matching chart across is the proper-radial coordinate constructed in the proof. The argument neither proves the general Buchdahl theorem nor supplies a finite-sound-speed matter dynamics for the incompressible equation of state.
Constrained entropy criticality, Tolman–Klein equivalence and TOV consequence
Statement
Assume as in The Axiom of Countable Choice (). Fix , a state chart and positive even profiles with compact range and as in Proper spherical entropy and particle constrained functionals. Let be the functions and functionals defined there. Define the lapse by whose integrand extends continuously to because , so it solves the lapse equation of Complete spherical Einstein and conservation reduction with boundary normalization An admissible profile curve is a map on an open interval about , in the sup-norm space , whose values are even profiles in the stated compactly-contained state chart and positive- domain, and whose derivative at is a smooth pair compactly supported in (extended evenly at the center). Define constrained stationarity to mean that has zero derivative at the base profile along every such curve on which both and are constant. Then constrained stationarity is equivalent to the existence of constants and such that are constant on . In that case the profile satisfies the Tolman and Klein products are and , and the two multipliers are and . The conclusion is a first-variation criticality statement only; it proves neither a local or global entropy maximum nor existence or dynamical stability of a physical fluid.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The state chart, positive profiles, fixed radius, uniform positive lower bound on , and functionals of Proper spherical entropy and particle constrained functionals, together with the conditional mass/lapse equations of Complete spherical Einstein and conservation reduction.
The static geometry, signature, and formal SI convention are those of Smooth static spherical geometry and state domain. The functional derivatives are computed on the fixed-radius profile domain with , , , , and (Proper spherical entropy and particle constrained functionals).
The local state chart obeys and by the definitions in Proper spherical entropy and particle constrained functionals.
From the defining integrals and in Proper spherical entropy and particle constrained functionals, continuity and boundedness of and on follow from A continuous function on is Riemann integrable, by Heine-Cantor and Riemann's criterion, and comparison of the mass integrand with a constant times using If on and both are integrable then ; and gives . The first FTC gives for and hence . The lapse integrand in the Statement extends continuously to by , bounded , and ; applying the first FTC to that integral gives for . These are the same mass and lapse expressions appearing in Complete spherical Einstein and conservation reduction, but the identities here are derived directly at the stated profile regularity, without applying that lemma's stronger smooth-field hypotheses.
A map with and invertible derivative in its correction variables has a local implicit correction map (The Euclidean implicit function theorem with derivative formula).
For any nonempty interval there is a smooth nonnegative bump supported in a smaller interval and positive on its interior (A smooth bump between concentric Euclidean balls).
Finite-dimensional componentwise algebra and compositions of maps are ( Euclidean maps are closed under componentwise algebra and composition). Continuous parameter derivatives pass through compact profile integrals (Leibniz's rule on a compact rectangle: an interior parameter derivative with a continuous extension may be passed through a Riemann integral). The resulting parameter-derivative integrals are continuous because their integrands are uniformly continuous on compact parameter rectangles (For a nonempty subset of with , compactness, closedness and boundedness, pseudocompactness, and attainment of extrema by every continuous real-valued function are equivalent, Heine-Cantor: a continuous map from a compact metric space to any metric space is uniformly continuous) and the integral error is bounded by interval length times the uniform error (Uniformly close integrable functions have integrals differing by at most the interval length times their uniform error); hence the finite-parameter constraint maps below are . Integration by parts holds for differentiable factors with integrable derivatives (If are differentiable on with integrable, then ).
On a positive interval the real-power rule gives the derivative of ; total chain differentiation then gives . Product and quotient rules also hold (Continuity and derivatives of positive-base real powers, The chain rule for total derivatives: , Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when ).
Each continuous integrand on a compact interval is Riemann integrable in the Darboux convention (A continuous function on is Riemann integrable, by Heine-Cantor and Riemann's criterion).
For an integrable real function on a compact interval, the derivative of equals at every point where is continuous (The first fundamental theorem: if is integrable on and continuous at , then ; in particular a continuous has as a primitive). Combined with [F8], this applies to the continuous integrands used below.
If a continuous nonnegative function on a compact interval is not identically zero, its integral is strictly positive: monotonicity makes the integral nonnegative, while A continuous on with is identically rules out equality to zero (If on and both are integrable then ; and ).
The countable-choice assumption is inherited from the geometric supplier chain through The Axiom of Countable Choice (); the finite-dimensional correction theorem used in the variational argument is choice-free.
Proof
For a smooth compactly supported variation in , differentiating the mass definition and gives The compact-range and positive- hypotheses give uniform differentiability under the integrals by [F6]. Small multiples of these variations remain admissible because the profile range is compactly contained in the open chart and .
These first variations also apply to every admissible sup-norm profile curve, with the same tangent at zero. Indeed the linear operator for , with , maps to itself and satisfies . Applying this bound to difference quotients shows that is in the sup norm with derivative . Evaluation of a sup-norm curve and of its derivative gives jointly continuous functions of : continuity follows by splitting the change into a sup-norm parameter change and a spatial change at a fixed parameter. On a sufficiently small closed parameter interval the profiles stay in a common compact subset of and , by sup-norm continuity. Consequently the integrands defining and their parameter derivatives are jointly continuous, using the state functions and the positive-base power rule. The compact-rectangle differentiation theorem in [F6] therefore applies directly to these curves, so the first variations depend only on the tangent at zero, with no assumption of affine dependence on .
Using and , the first variations are For a nonnegative bump , the continuous integrand is nonnegative and nonzero on , so [F10] gives for the variation , whose . For another nonnegative bump , [F10] similarly gives . Hence the derivative map is onto .
Fix any tangent variation with , and choose the two bump directions from step 2.1 whose constraint derivative columns are linearly independent. Define to be the pair of constraint changes along the profiles . The compact-in-chart and positive- hypotheses give an open parameter neighbourhood where these profiles remain admissible; [F6] makes a map there. Its derivative in at has the two independent columns from step 2.1 and is invertible. Apply the implicit function theorem [F4] with path parameter and correction variables . It supplies corrections with that keep both constraints fixed. Differentiating the constraint equations at zero and using gives the invertible correction matrix times , so both correction derivatives vanish. The correction path remains admissible for small , and its derivative at zero is the given smooth compactly supported tangent. Therefore constrained stationarity implies for every tangent variation in the kernel of .
Put and . Substituting the variations from steps 1.1 and 2.1 and integrating by parts in the single radial variable gives For the nonlocal term, set and . By [F8]–[F9], are differentiable with and . Also , so integration by parts gives . Thus the displayed formula has no omitted boundary term.
Because the constraint derivative is onto and vanishes on its kernel, finite-dimensional linear algebra gives constants such that for every compactly supported variation. Conversely, if such multipliers exist, then for every variation with . The multiplier argument uses only the two bump directions and finite-dimensional algebra.
The two bracket coefficients in step 3.2 are continuous. Each can be tested against every smooth compactly supported variation; if a coefficient were positive or negative at an interior point, continuity and [F5] would give a nonnegative bump supported where it keeps that sign. The resulting continuous integrand, or its negative in the negative case, is nonnegative and not identically zero, so [F10] makes its integral strictly positive; this contradicts the vanishing first variation. Since , this gives and By the Euler identity in [F2], .
Differentiate the last identity on ; [F9] differentiates its variable-endpoint integral, and [F7] differentiates , giving The mass and identities in [F3] yield , so Thus is constant. Since , is constant as well. At , the boundary normalization makes , and the energy bracket has integral zero there; hence .
Differentiating using the calculus rules [F7] and substituting gives . Since , , so Substituting the lapse equation from [F3] gives the TOV pressure equation.
Conversely, suppose the stated Tolman and Klein products are constant with the boundary normalization. Then is constant. The Euler and differential identities in [F2] imply , so the TOV pressure equation follows from [F3]. Reversing the algebra in step 5.1 shows that the energy bracket in step 4.2 has derivative zero; its boundary value at is , so it equals throughout. The number bracket vanishes because . Therefore step 3.2 gives for every variation, and any constraint-preserving variation has . This proves constrained stationarity and both directions.
Remarks
The variations establish a first-order critical-point equivalence only. Neither the source derivation nor this proof establishes a maximum, a second-variation sign, existence of a critical profile, a general equation of state, or dynamical stability. In the formal SI bookkeeping, has units , has units , has units , and has units . The boundary normalization is a clock convention for this fixed-radius calculation, not a vacuum-matching assumption.
5 · Examples, experiments and counterexamples
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