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as
α
μν
= e
α
i
∂
ν
e
i
μ
=−e
μ
i
∂
ν
e
α
i
. (3)
The torsion and con-torsion tensors are:
T
α
μν
=
α
νμ
−
α
μν
= e
α
i
∂
μ
e
i
ν
− ∂
ν
e
i
μ
. (4)
K
μν
α
=−
1
2
T
μν
α
− T
νμ
α
− T
μν
α
. (5)
The above two tensors given by Eqs. (3) and (4) are used to
construct a new tensor given by,
S
μν
α
=
1
2
K
μν
α
+ δ
μ
α
T
βν
β
− δ
ν
α
T
βμ
β
. (6)
The torsion scalar now can be expressed as:
T = T
α
μν
S
μν
α
. (7)
Analogous to modified gravitational action in f (R) theory
one can obtain another modified gravity f (T ) replacing R
by T ,as,
S =
d
4
x
1
16π
f (T ) + L
matter
e (8)
where, G = c = 1 and L
matter
is the matter Lagrangian. Vari-
ation of Eq. (8) with respect to tetrad field yield the following
set of equations of motion:
e
α
i
S
μν
α
∂
μ
Tf
TT
+ e
−1
∂
μ
(ee
α
i
S
μν
α
) f
T
+ e
μ
i
T
λ
μk
S
νk
λ
f
T
−
1
4
e
ν
i
f =−4π e
λ
i
T
ν
λ
, (9)
where T
μν
is the energy–momentum tensor of a particular
matter, whereas f
T
and f
TT
represent first and second deriva-
tives of f (T ) with respect to the torsion scalar T respec-
tively. For an anisotropic fluid the energy–momentum tensor
is described by,
T
ν
μ
= (ρ + p
t
)u
μ
u
ν
− p
t
δ
ν
μ
+ ( p
r
− p
t
)v
μ
v
ν
(10)
where u
μ
and v
μ
are the four velocity and radial four vec-
tors, p
r
and p
t
represents pressures in radial and transverse
directions.
In covariant derivative formalism, f (T ) field equations
can be recasted as,
ϒ
μν
f
TT
+
T
2
f
T
− f
T
g
μν
+ G
μν
f
T
=
1
16π
T
(m)
μν
(11)
where, ϒ
μν
= S
α
νμ
∇
α
T , while G
μν
is the Einstein tensor. In
the stream of GR as well as f (R) field equations, Eq.(9) can
be rewritten as,
G
μν
=
1
16π f
T
T
(T )
μν
+ T
(m)
μν
, (12)
where,
T
(T )
μν
=
1
16π
− ϒ
μν
f
TT
−
1
4
(T − ϒ f
TT
+ Rf
T
)g
μν
(13)
is a tensor incorporating corrections coming from torsion
scalar. It is evident that for a linear f (T ) i.e., f (T ) = T ,
Eq. (11) leads to GR equations.
3 Model of anisotropic compact stars in f (T ) gravity
with Finch–Skea geometry
We consider a spherically symmetric static space-time metric
given by,
ds
2
=−e
2ν(r )
dt
2
+ e
2λ(r)
dr
2
+r
2
d
2
2
(14)
where, ν(r) and λ(r) are the two unknown metric poten-
tials, and d
2
2
= dθ
2
+ si n
2
θdφ
2
represents the metric on
the 2-sphere in polar co-ordinates. We consider the energy
momentum tensor for an anisotropic compact object in 4-
dimensions as,
T
ab
= diag(−ρ, p
r
, p
t
, p
t
) (15)
where, ρ is the energy density, p
r
is the radial pressure and p
t
is the tangential pressure.The pressure anisotropy is defined
by Δ = p
t
− p
r
. The value of the anisotropy depends on
the metric potentials λ(r) and ν(r ). The tetrad matrix for the
metric in Eq. (10) is given by,
[e
i
μ
]=diag[e
ν
(r), e
λ
(r), r, rsin(θ )]. (16)
The determinant of the tetrad matrix is given by e =
det[e
i
μ
]=e
ν+λ
r
2
si n(θ), the torsion scalar and its derivative
in terms of r is given by,
T (r) =
2e
−2λ
r
2ν
+
1
r
(17)
T
(r) =
2e
−2λ
r
2ν
−
1
r
2
−
2ν
+
1
r
2λ
+
1
r
(18)
where the prime ()
denotes the derivative with respect to the
radial coordinates.
Now substituting the above tetrad field (16) and inserting
the values of torsion scalar and its derivative in Eq. (9), one
can find out the Einstein field equations explicitly in f (T )
gravity for an anisotropic fluid as,
4πρ =
f
4
−
f
T
2
T −
1
r
2
− 2
e
−2λ
r
ν
+ λ
, (19)
4π p
r
=
f
T
2
T −
1
r
2
−
f
4
, (20)
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