Stationary generalizations for the vacuum ring wormhole
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| author | Volkov, Mikhail S. |
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| contents | The ring wormhole is the zero-mass limit of the Kerr metric. Its geometry is locally flat, but the topology is nontrivial, with a throat connecting two asymptotic regions and a distributional curvature singularity on the ring encircling the throat. We construct stationary generalizations of this static wormhole that are different from Kerr and invariant under reflections across the wormhole throat. The problem reduces to solving the vacuum Ernst equations subject to the corresponding symmetry conditions. The slowly rotating perturbative solutions were constructed previously, while we now present a detailed analysis of non-perturbative solutions obtained within a numerical framework. For slow rotation, they exhibit the non-relativistic relation $M\sim J^2$ between the mass and angular momentum, which transforms into the Regge relation $J=M^2$ in the fast-rotation regime, when $J\to\infty$ and the ring is stretched without bound by the centrifugal force. However, if the ring size in the static limit is sent to zero at the same time, then $M$ and $J$ remain bounded as the throat linear velocity approaches unity. The wormhole geometry then approaches the extremal Kerr solution, thus ``mimicking'' it. The wormholes carry a curvature singularity at the ring, but this can be removed by via simple ``scalarization'' procedure that promotes the vacuum solutions to regular wormholes with a phantom scalar field. |
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| spellingShingle | Stationary generalizations for the vacuum ring wormhole Volkov, Mikhail S. General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory The ring wormhole is the zero-mass limit of the Kerr metric. Its geometry is locally flat, but the topology is nontrivial, with a throat connecting two asymptotic regions and a distributional curvature singularity on the ring encircling the throat. We construct stationary generalizations of this static wormhole that are different from Kerr and invariant under reflections across the wormhole throat. The problem reduces to solving the vacuum Ernst equations subject to the corresponding symmetry conditions. The slowly rotating perturbative solutions were constructed previously, while we now present a detailed analysis of non-perturbative solutions obtained within a numerical framework. For slow rotation, they exhibit the non-relativistic relation $M\sim J^2$ between the mass and angular momentum, which transforms into the Regge relation $J=M^2$ in the fast-rotation regime, when $J\to\infty$ and the ring is stretched without bound by the centrifugal force. However, if the ring size in the static limit is sent to zero at the same time, then $M$ and $J$ remain bounded as the throat linear velocity approaches unity. The wormhole geometry then approaches the extremal Kerr solution, thus ``mimicking'' it. The wormholes carry a curvature singularity at the ring, but this can be removed by via simple ``scalarization'' procedure that promotes the vacuum solutions to regular wormholes with a phantom scalar field. |
| title | Stationary generalizations for the vacuum ring wormhole |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27600 |