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Composite vacuum Brans-Dicke wormholes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2013-05-29 v1

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 ω\omega, however they are described by the Brans class I solution with different sets of parameters of integration. In particular, the exterior vacuum solution has Cext(ω)0C_{ext}(\omega)\equiv 0. In this case the Brans class I solution for any ω\omega 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 Cint(ω)=1/(ω+2)C_{int}(\omega)=-1/(\omega+2). In this case the Brans class I solution describes a wormhole spacetime provided ω\omega lies in the narrow interval 233<ω<2-2-\frac{\sqrt{3}}{3}<\omega<-2. 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 p=kσp=k\sigma with 0k10\le k\le1. 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

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