Wormholes in string theory

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/5/309MaRDI QIDQ4699940zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dan N. Vollick

Publication date 18 November 1999

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9806096

zbMATH Keywords

charged dilaton wormholessurface stress-energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: A wormhole is constructed by cutting and joining two spacetimes satisfying the low energy string equations with a dilaton field. In spacetimes described by the "string metric" the dilaton energy-momentum tensor need not satisfy the weak or dominant energy conditions. In the cases considered here the dilaton field violates these energy conditions and is the source of the exotic matter required to maintain the wormhole. There is also a surface stress-energy, that must be produced by additional matter, where the spacetimes are joined. It is shown that wormholes can be constructed for which this additional matter satisfies the weak and dominant energy conditions, so that it could be a form of "normal" matter. Charged dilaton wormholes with a coupling between the dilaton and the electromagnetic field that is more general than in string theory are also briefly discussed.

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