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A Traversable Wormhole from the Kerr Black Hole

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-04-18 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The approach of Gao, Jafferis, and Wall to perturbatively construct traversable wormholes has seen success in a number of black hole backgrounds, particularly BTZ and AdS2AdS_2, whereas historically most wormhole solutions have been either found to violate the achronal ANEC, violate a classical no-go theorem, or exist only in astrophysically irrelevant spacetimes. In this work, we show that a double-trace deformation to the near-horizon, near-extremal region of Kerr yields a traversable wormhole. We also comment on the potential for a fully nonperturbative approach to a four-dimensional rotating traversable wormhole in asymptotically flat space.

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@article{arxiv.2304.07356,
  title  = {A Traversable Wormhole from the Kerr Black Hole},
  author = {Ryan Bilotta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.07356},
  year   = {2023}
}

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24 pages

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