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Complementarity in Wormhole Chromodynamics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The electric charge of a wormhole mouth and the magnetic flux ``linked'' by the wormhole are non-commuting observables, and so cannot be simultaneously diagonalized. We use this observation to resolve some puzzles in wormhole electrodynamics and chromodynamics. Specifically, we analyze the color electric field that results when a colored object traverses a wormhole, and we discuss the measurement of the wormhole charge and flux using Aharonov-Bohm interference effects. We suggest that wormhole mouths may obey conventional quantum statistics, contrary to a recent proposal by Strominger.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9308044,
  title  = {Complementarity in Wormhole Chromodynamics},
  author = {Hoi-Kwong Lo and Kai-Ming Lee and John Preskill},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9308044},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages and 2 figures, phyzzx, CALT-68-1880