Geons as wormholes of modified gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2016-07-25 v1
Abstract
Wormholes may arise as solutions of extensions of General Relativity without violation of the energy conditions. Working in a Palatini approach we consider classical geometries supporting such wormholes. It is shown that the resulting space-times represent explicit realizations of the concept of geon introduced by Wheeler, interpreted as self-consistent bodies generated by an electromagnetic field without sources.
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@article{arxiv.1601.00156,
title = {Geons as wormholes of modified gravity},
author = {Gonzalo J. Olmo and Diego Rubiera-Garcia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.00156},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages; Contribution to the proceedings of "The Fourtheenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity", University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, July 12-18, 2015, based on an invited talk delivered at the AT3 parallel session