https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2017-11810-4
Regular Article
Study of charged stellar structures in f(R, T) gravity
Department of Mathematics, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, 54590, Lahore, Pakistan
* e-mail: msharif.math@pu.edu.pk
Received:
25
October
2017
Accepted:
28
November
2017
Published online:
20
December
2017
This paper explores charged stellar structures whose pressure and density are related through polytropic equation of state (
; 
is polytropic constant, p is pressure, 
denotes density and 
is polytropic exponent) in the scenario of 
gravity (where R is the Ricci scalar and T is the trace of energy-momentum tensor). The Einstein-Maxwell field equations are solved together with the hydrostatic equilibrium equation for 
where 
is the coupling constant, also called model parameter. We discuss different features of such configurations (like pressure, mass and charge) using graphical behavior for two values of . It is found that the effects of model parameter on different quantities remain the same for both cases. The energy conditions are satisfied and stellar configurations are stable in each case.
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