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Existence of Vacuum Wormholes in Einsteinian Cubic Gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-06-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Wormhole solutions in gravitational theories typically require exotic matter. Here we present a wormhole solution to the field equations of Einsteinian Cubic Gravity -- a phenomenological competitor to general relativity that includes terms cubic in the curvature -- that has no matter, exotic or otherwise. These purely gravitational wormhole geometries are asymptotically AdS but contain a geometric deficit at infinity. The deficit, interpreted as a global monopole, plays an essential role in our construction. We find that our wormhole solution satisfies traversablility criteria. We also find, for different parameters, a range of possible wormhole solutions.

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@article{arxiv.2410.13996,
  title  = {Existence of Vacuum Wormholes in Einsteinian Cubic Gravity},
  author = {Mengqi Lu and Jiayue Yang and Robert B. Mann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.13996},
  year   = {2025}
}

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