Traversable wormholes from surgically modified Schwarzschild space-times

Jan, 1989
10 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 328 (1989) 203-212
  • Published: 1989
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Report number:
  • LA-UR-89-244

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
In this paper I present a new class of traversalle wormholes. This is done by surgically grafting two Schwarzschild spacetimes together in such a way that no event horizon is to form. This surgery concentrates a non-zero stress-energy on the boundary layer between the two asymptotically flat regions. We investigate this stress-energy in detail using the “junction condition” formalism. A feature of the present analysis is that this class of traversible wormholers is sufficiently simple for a (partial) dynamical stability analysis to be carried out. The stability analysis places constraints on the equation of the state o the exotic matter that comprises the throat of the wormhole.
  • space-time: Schwarzschild
  • wormhole
  • Einstein equation
  • boundary condition
  • field equations: solution
  • thermodynamics
  • energy: density
  • stability
  • tensor: energy-momentum