Can Galileons support Lorentzian wormholes?

DOI10.1134/S004057791605010XzbMATH Open1346.83049arXiv1509.08808MaRDI QIDQ309329FDOQ309329

Authors: V. A. Rubakov 

Publication date: 7 September 2016

Published in: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss the possibility of constructing stable, static, spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat Lorentzian wormhole solutions in General Relativity coupled to a generalized Galileon field $pi$. Assuming that Minkowski space-time is obtained at $partialpi=0$, we find that there is tension between the properties of the energy-momentum tensor required to support a wormhole (violation of average null energy conditions) and stability of the Galileon perturbations about the putative solution (absence of ghosts and gradient instabilities). In 3-dimensional space-time, this tension is strong enough to rule out wormholes with above properties. In higher dimensions, including the most physically interesting case of 4-dimensional space-time, wormholes, if any, must have fairly contrived shapes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08808

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zbMATH Keywords

wormholeGalileon field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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