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    Eleven spherically symmetric constant density solutions with cosmological constant

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    Einstein's field equations with cosmological constant are analysed for a static, spherically symmetric perfect fluid having constant density. Five new global solutions are described. One of these solutions has the Nariai solution joined on as an exterior field. Another solution describes a decreasing pressure model with exterior Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime having decreasing group orbits at the boundary. Two further types generalise the Einstein static universe. The other new solution is unphysical, it is an increasing pressure model with a geometric singularity.Comment: 19 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, revised bibliography, corrected eqn. (3.11), typos corrected, two new reference

    Bounds on M/R for static objects with a positive cosmological constant

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    We consider spherically symmetric static solutions of the Einstein equations with a positive cosmological constant Λ,\Lambda, which are regular at the centre, and we investigate the influence of Λ\Lambda on the bound of M/R, where M is the ADM mass and R is the area radius of the boundary of the static object. We find that for any solution which satisfies the energy condition p+2pρ,p+2p_{\perp}\leq\rho, where p0p\geq 0 and pp_{\perp} are the radial and tangential pressures respectively, and ρ0\rho\geq 0 is the energy density, and for which 0ΛR21,0\leq \Lambda R^2\leq 1, the inequality \frac{M}{R}\leq\frac29-\frac{\Lambda R^2}{3}+\frac29 \sqrt{1+3\Lambda R^2}, holds. If Λ=0\Lambda=0 it is known that infinitely thin shell solutions uniquely saturate the inequality, i.e. the inequality is sharp in that case. The situation is quite different if Λ>0.\Lambda>0. Indeed, we show that infinitely thin shell solutions do not generally saturate the inequality except in the two degenerate situations ΛR2=0\Lambda R^2=0 and ΛR2=1\Lambda R^2=1. In the latter situation there is also a constant density solution, where the exterior spacetime is the Nariai solution, which saturates the inequality, hence, the saturating solution is non-unique. In this case the cosmological horizon and the black hole horizon coincide. This is analogous to the charged situation where there is numerical evidence that uniqueness of the saturating solution is lost when the inner and outer horizons of the Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m solution coincide.Comment: 14 pages; Improvements and corrections, published versio
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