Alexei Starobinsky and wormhole physics
Abstract
Alexei Starobinsky is most famous for his great contribution to cosmology, but he has considerable achievements in other branches of gravitational physics and astrophysics, such as the theory of compact objects including black holes and wormholes. In this note, we give a brief review of Alexei's papers devoted to wormhole physics. They mostly concern such issues of common interest as the necessary conditions for wormhole existence in general relativity and its extensions as well as generic properties of some kinds of wormholes. We also extend one of the no-go theorems on thin-shell wormholes to a wider choice of their symmetry and matter content.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2503.12088,
title = {Alexei Starobinsky and wormhole physics},
author = {Kirill A. Bronnikov and Milena V. Skvortsova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.12088},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
14 pages, no figures. A contribution to the book "Open Issues in Gravitation and Cosmology - Original Contributions, Essays and Recollections in Honor of Alexei Starobinsky" edited by Andrei Barvinsky and Alexander Kamenshchik