The effect of negative-energy shells on the Schwarzschild black hole

DOI10.1007/S10714-009-0916-5zbMATH Open1195.83057arXiv0907.0696OpenAlexW2100673204MaRDI QIDQ982255FDOQ982255

Tevian Dray, Jeffrey S. Hazboun

Publication date: 6 July 2010

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

Abstract: We construct Penrose diagrams for Schwarzschild spacetimes joined by massless shells of matter, in the process correcting minor flaws in the similar diagrams drawn by Dray and 't Hooft, and confirming their result that such shells generate a horizon shift. We then consider shells with negative energy density, showing that the horizon shift in this case allows for travel between the heretofore causally separated exterior regions of the Schwarzschild geometry. These drawing techniques are then used to investigate the properties of successive shells, joining multiple Schwarzschild regions. Again, the presence of negative-energy shells leads to a causal connection between the exterior regions, even in (some) cases with two successive shells of equal but opposite total energy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0696

zbMATH Keywords

wormholesblack holesnegative energyShells

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Black holes (83C57)

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• Negative modes of Schwarzschild black holes in Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet theory
• Interacting thin shells in the interior of a Reissner-Nordstrøm black hole

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