Energy conditions and classical scalar fields

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00437-6zbMATH Open0997.83009arXivhep-th/0106168OpenAlexW1965542870WikidataQ62558743 ScholiaQ62558743MaRDI QIDQ696099FDOQ696099

Authors: Stefano Bellucci, Valerio Faraoni 

Publication date: 10 September 2002

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Attention has been recently called upon the fact that the weak and null energy conditions and the second law of thermodynamics are violated in wormhole solutions of Einstein's theory with classical, nonminimally coupled, scalar fields as material source. It is shown that the discussion is only meaningful when ambiguities in the definitions of stress-energy tensor and energy density of a nonminimally coupled scalar are resolved. The three possible approaches are discussed with emphasis on the positivity of the respective energy densities and covariant conservation laws. The root of the ambiguities is traced to the energy localization problem for the gravitational field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0106168

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zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawsenergy localizationwormhole solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

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