Thin-shell wormholes admitting conformal motions in spacetimes of embedding class one

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Main Author: Kuhfittig, Peter K. F.
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contents This paper discusses the feasibility of thin-shell wormholes in spacetimes of embedding class one admitting a one-parameter group of conformal motions. It is shown that the surface energy density $σ$ is positive, while the surface pressure $\mathcal{P}$ is negative, resulting in $σ+\mathcal{P}<0$, thereby signaling a violation of the null energy condition, a necessary condition for holding a wormhole open. For a Morris-Thorne wormhole, matter that violates the null energy condition is referred to as "exotic." For the thin-shell wormholes in this paper, however, the violation has a physical explanation since it is a direct consequence of the embedding theory in conjunction with the assumption of conformal symmetry. These properties avoid the need to hypothesize the existence of the highly problematical exotic matter.
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spellingShingle Thin-shell wormholes admitting conformal motions in spacetimes of embedding class one
Kuhfittig, Peter K. F.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
This paper discusses the feasibility of thin-shell wormholes in spacetimes of embedding class one admitting a one-parameter group of conformal motions. It is shown that the surface energy density $σ$ is positive, while the surface pressure $\mathcal{P}$ is negative, resulting in $σ+\mathcal{P}<0$, thereby signaling a violation of the null energy condition, a necessary condition for holding a wormhole open. For a Morris-Thorne wormhole, matter that violates the null energy condition is referred to as "exotic." For the thin-shell wormholes in this paper, however, the violation has a physical explanation since it is a direct consequence of the embedding theory in conjunction with the assumption of conformal symmetry. These properties avoid the need to hypothesize the existence of the highly problematical exotic matter.
title Thin-shell wormholes admitting conformal motions in spacetimes of embedding class one
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05581