The geodesics of the Kaluza-Klein wormhole soliton (Q749901)

In an earlier work the second author [ibid. 16, 491-494 (1984; Zbl 0538.53036)] had obtained a regular localized solution with the Minkowski signature of the sourceless five-dimensional Einstein field equations and the name Kaluza-Klein wormhole soliton is given to such a solution. By applying a dimensional reduction from five to three dimensions to convert the problem of geodesic motion of neutral or charged test particles in the soliton to a non-relativistic problem, they show that there is no observable difference between scattering of a test particle by a point charge and by a wormhole soliton.