TOV or OV?, the whole story

TL;DR

This paper critically examines the claim that the hydrostatic equilibrium equation should be called the 'Oppenheimer-Volkoff' equation instead of 'Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff', arguing that the existing literature does not support this change.

Contribution

It clarifies the historical and bibliographical basis for the traditional naming of the TOV equation and refutes the recent claim for renaming it as OV.

Findings

The claim for renaming is not supported by existing references.

Historical bibliography favors the TOV designation.

The paper emphasizes the importance of proper attribution.

Abstract

In a recent manuscript published in the Arxives (arXiv:1610.03049v1), it is claimed that it should be more appropriate to refer to the equation of hydrostatic equilibrium in a static spherically symmetric spacetime, supported by an isotropic perfect fluid, as the "Oppenheimer-Volkoff (OV) equation", instead of the "Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV)", as is frequently done. As we shall see in this brief note, such a claim is not supported by the existing bibliography.