Wormholes with a warped extra dimension?

DOI10.1007/S10714-022-02951-2zbMATH Open1500.83032arXiv2203.14631OpenAlexW4284710092MaRDI QIDQ2159335FDOQ2159335

Authors: Sayan Kar 

Publication date: 29 July 2022

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the role of a specifically warped extra dimension in constructing examples of higher dimensional spacetimes representing Lorentzian wormholes. The warping chosen is largely inspired by the well-known non-static Witten bubble of nothing, though our spacetimes are static and geometrically different. Vacuum solutions in $Dgeq5$ dimensions and others (non-asymptotically flat) with `perfectly normal' matter stress energy are interpreted as possible Lorentzian wormholes. Asymptotically flat wormholes in $Dgeq5$ with `exotic matter' and within this class of spacetimes also appear to exist in all dimensions. A wormhole-black hole correspondence via double Wick rotation is revisited and discussed. Finally, geodesic motion as well as the behaviour of geodesic congruences, in the sub-class of five dimensional, warped, vacuum wormhole spacetimes is also briefly analysed, with the aim of obtaining characteristic properties and specific signatures which may help improve our understanding of these geometries.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14631

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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