English

Exact wormhole solutions with nonminimal kinetic coupling

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-22 v1

Abstract

We consider static spherically symmetric solutions in the scalar-tensor theory of gravity with a scalar field possessing the nonminimal kinetic coupling to the curvature. The lagrangian of the theory contains the term (εgμν+ηGμν)ϕ,μϕ,ν(\varepsilon g^{\mu\nu}+\eta G^{\mu \nu})\phi_{,\mu}\phi_{,\nu} and represents a particular case of the general Horndeski lagrangian, which leads to second-order equations of motion. We use the Rinaldi approach to construct analytical solutions describing wormholes with nonminimal kinetic coupling. It is shown that wormholes exist only if ε=1\varepsilon=-1 (phantom case) and η>0\eta>0. The wormhole throat connects two anti-de Sitter spacetimes. The wormhole metric has a coordinate singularity at the throat. However, since all curvature invariants are regular, there is no curvature singularity there.

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@article{arxiv.1408.1235,
  title  = {Exact wormhole solutions with nonminimal kinetic coupling},
  author = {R. V. Korolev and Sergey V. Sushkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.1235},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures, to be submitted to PRD

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