Eur. Phys. J. C (2018) 78: 421
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5900-3

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

On stability of a neutron star system in Palatini gravity

Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 1, Lublin, 20-031, Poland

^* e-mail: aneta.wojnar@poczta.umcs.lublin.pl

Received: 18 December 2017
Accepted: 16 May 2018
Published online: 28 May 2018

Abstract

We formulate the generalized Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff equations for the Palatini gravity in the case of static and spherical symmetric geometry. We also show that a neutron star can be a stable system independently of the form of the functional .