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Generating 4-dimensional Wormholes with Yang-Mills Casimir Sources

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-08-29 v2

Abstract

This work presents a new wormhole solution in General Relativity supported by the quantum vacuum fluctuations of the Casimir effect between perfect chromometallic mirrors in (3+1)(3+1) dimensions, which was recently fitted using first-principle numerical simulations. Initially, we employ a perturbative approach for x=mr1x = m r \ll 1, where mm represents the Casimir mass. This approach has proven to be a reasonable approximation when compared with the exact case in this regime. To find well-behaved redshift functions, we impose constraints on the free parameters. As expected, this solution recovers the electromagnetic-like Casimir solution for m=0m = 0. Analyzing the traversability conditions, we graphically find that all will be satisfied for 0m0.20 0 \leq m \leq 0.20. On the other hand, all the energy conditions are violated, as usual in this context. Stability from Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov (TOV) equation is guaranteed for all rr and from the speed of sound for 0.16m0.180.16 \le m \le 0.18. Therefore, for 0.16m0.180.16 \leq m \leq 0.18, we will have a stable solution that satisfies all traversability conditions.

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@article{arxiv.2405.08774,
  title  = {Generating 4-dimensional Wormholes with Yang-Mills Casimir Sources},
  author = {A. C. L. Santos and R. V. Maluf and C. R. Muniz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.08774},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

16 pages, 9 figures, Improved and accepted version for publication in Annals of Physics

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