https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15697-x
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
The imprints of the instantaneous appearance of a conformal Killing vector field on the evolution of self-gravitating fluid spheres
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Instituto Universitario de Física Fundamental y Matemáticas, Universidad de Salamanca, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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Escuela de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1050, Caracas, Venezuela
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Departamento de Matemática Aplicada and Instituto Universitario de Física Fundamental y Matemáticas, Universidad de Salamanca, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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Received:
23
February
2026
Accepted:
12
April
2026
Published online:
2
May
2026
Abstract
We study the influence of the instantaneous appearance of a conformal Killing vector (CKV) in self-gravitating fluid spheres during their evolution. For doing that we introduce a tensor variable whose time dependence allows the existence of a CKV for a given value of the time-like coordinate. We consider adiabatic and dissipative fluids. The analysis of different relevant physical variables in this process provides a smoking gun signature from the emergence of CKV at some point of the evolution. Prospective applications of these results, as well as open questions and pending issues related to this problem, are discussed.
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