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No go theorem for kinematic self-similarity with a polytropic equation of state
We investigate spherically symmetric spacetimes which contain a perfect fluid obeying the polytropic equation of state and admit a kinematic self-similar vector of the second kind which is neither parallel nor orthogonal to the fluid flow. We assume two kinds of polytropic equations of state and show in general relativity …