Traversable wormhole for string, but not for particle

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Main Authors: Jang, Hun, Kim, Minkyoo, Lee, Hocheol, Park, Jeong-Hyuck
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Published: 2024
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author Jang, Hun
Kim, Minkyoo
Lee, Hocheol
Park, Jeong-Hyuck
author_facet Jang, Hun
Kim, Minkyoo
Lee, Hocheol
Park, Jeong-Hyuck
contents We propose a Lorentzian wormhole geometry characterized by a closed string massless sector with nontrivial $H$-flux and a scalar dilaton. In the string frame, the dilaton exhibits a negative kinetic term, enabling the existence of the wormhole. The geometry consists of three distinct regions. The middle region contains the throat, and its boundaries with the other two regions form non-Riemannian two-spheres, where a fundamental string becomes chiral, akin to a non-relativistic string. While point-particle geodesics are complete within each region and non-traversable across regions, strings perceive the geometry differently, allowing a chiral string to traverse freely.
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spellingShingle Traversable wormhole for string, but not for particle
Jang, Hun
Kim, Minkyoo
Lee, Hocheol
Park, Jeong-Hyuck
High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We propose a Lorentzian wormhole geometry characterized by a closed string massless sector with nontrivial $H$-flux and a scalar dilaton. In the string frame, the dilaton exhibits a negative kinetic term, enabling the existence of the wormhole. The geometry consists of three distinct regions. The middle region contains the throat, and its boundaries with the other two regions form non-Riemannian two-spheres, where a fundamental string becomes chiral, akin to a non-relativistic string. While point-particle geodesics are complete within each region and non-traversable across regions, strings perceive the geometry differently, allowing a chiral string to traverse freely.
title Traversable wormhole for string, but not for particle
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04128