Composite vacuum Brans-Dicke wormholes
Abstract
We construct a new static spherically symmetric configuration composed of interior and exterior Brans-Dicke vacua matched at a thin matter shell. Both vacua correspond to the same Brans-Dicke coupling parameter , however they are described by the Brans class I solution with different sets of parameters of integration. In particular, the exterior vacuum solution has . In this case the Brans class I solution for any reduces to the Schwarzschild one being consistent with restrictions on the post-Newtonian parameters following from recent Cassini data. The interior region possesses a strong gravitational field, and so the interior vacuum solution has . In this case the Brans class I solution describes a wormhole spacetime provided lies in the narrow interval . The interior and exterior regions are matched at a thin shell made from an ordinary perfect fluid with positive energy density and pressure obeying the barotropic equation of state with . The resulting configuration represents a composite wormhole, i.e. the thin matter shell with the Schwarzschild-like exterior region and the interior region containing the wormhole throat.
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@article{arxiv.1109.2273,
title = {Composite vacuum Brans-Dicke wormholes},
author = {Sergey V. Sushkov and Sergey M. Kozyrev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.2273},
year = {2013}
}
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14 pages, 3 figures