Semi-classical wormholes are unstable

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2005.10.013MaRDI QIDQ453903zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roman V. Buniy, Stephen D. H. Hsu

Publication date 30 September 2012

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0504003

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentzian wormholessemi-classical spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

Abstract: We show that Lorentzian (traversable) wormholes and time machines with semi-classical spacetimes are unstable due to their violation of the null energy condition (NEC). Semi-classicality of the energy-momentum tensor in a given quantum state (required for semi-classicality of the spacetime) implies localization of its wavefunction in phase space, leading to evolution according to the classical equations of motion. Previous results related to violation of the NEC then require that the configuration is unstable to small perturbations.

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