Spontaneous symmetry breaking
2.1 Review of classical results about Maclaurin/Jacobi ellipsoids
2.2 Spontaneous breaking of symmetry: a general phenomenom
2.3 Previous results for compressible Newtonian stars
2.4 Generation of gravitational waves
2.5 Finding the equilibrium configurations of a rotating star in the
Newtonian regime
2.6 Extension to general relativity
2.7 First integral of fluid motion in general relativity
2.8 Gravitational field equations
2.9 Numerical results
CW emission from pulsars
Discussion and conclusion
Appendix: Relativistic hydrodynamics in an accelerated frame