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Schwarzschild derives an exact static spherically symmetric exterior solution of Einstein gravitational equations under specified asymptotic and coordinate conditions, and relates its geodesics to Einstein perihelion calculations.
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Schwarzschild derives an exact static spherically symmetric exterior solution of Einstein gravitational equations under specified asymptotic and coordinate conditions, and relates its geodesics to Einstein perihelion calculations. The exact solution concerns a static, spherically symmetric vacuum exterior in classical general relativity. Coordinate choices and excluded singular/boundary regions matter. It is not an interior stellar model, the later maximal extension, rotating geometry or a quantum resolution. Later physical and causal interpretations receive separate credit.
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Contributors
- Karl Schwarzschild · SCIENCE: Original source-listed scientific author of this scoped work; byline does not determine effort fractions.
- K. Schwarzschild, Über das Gravitationsfeld eines Massenpunktes nach der Einsteinschen Theorie — complete 1916 German original transcription
- Schwarzschild 1916 body, English translation by S. Antoci/A. Loinger 1999; foreword excluded from scientific evidence
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