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Brans-Dicke Wormhole Revisited -- II

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-06-29 v2

Abstract

In a recent paper [arXiv:0910.1109], a wormhole range in the Jordan frame, -3/2<{\omega}<-4/3 for the vacuum Brans-Dicke Class I solution was derived. On general grounds and under certain conditions, it is shown in a theorem that static wormhole solutions in the scalar-tensor theory are not possible. We agree with the conclusion within its framework but report that a singularity-free wormhole can be obtained from Class I solution by performing certain operations on it, a fact possibly not yet widely known. The transformed solution is regular everywhere, produces a wormhole with two asymtotically flat regions for a revised new range -2<{\omega}<-3/2, together with a wormhole analogue (of Horowitz-Ross naked black hole) that we discovered earlier. This new range lies in the ghost regime in the Einstein frame consistent with the theorem. We further conclude that there is a fixed point at {\omega}=-3/2, the values {\omega}>-3/2 correspond to singular wormholes, while values {\omega}<-3/2 correspond to singularity-free wormholes.

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@article{arxiv.1006.4819,
  title  = {Brans-Dicke Wormhole Revisited -- II},
  author = {Ramil Izmailov and Amrita Bhattacharya and Kamal K. Nandi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.4819},
  year   = {2010}
}

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