Conformal continuations and wormhole instability in scalar-tensor gravity

zbMATH Open1067.83532arXivgr-qc/0411063MaRDI QIDQ1772191FDOQ1772191

Authors: Kirill A. Bronnikov, S. V. Grinyok 

Publication date: 15 April 2005

Published in: Gravitation \& Cosmology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the stability of static, spherically symmetric, traversable wormholes existing due to conformal continuations in a class of scalar-tensor theories with zero scalar field potential (so that Fisher's well-known scalar-vacuum solution holds in the Einstein conformal frame). Specific examples of such wormholes are those with nonminimally (e.g., conformally) coupled scalar fields. All boundary conditions for scalar and metric perturbations are taken into account. All such wormholes are shown to be unstable under spherically symmetric perturbations. The instability is proved analytically with the aid of the theory of self-adjoint operators in Hilbert space and is confirmed by a numerical computation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0411063

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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