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Instability of wormholes with a nonminimally coupled scalar field

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Static, spherically symmetric, traversable wormholes, induced by massless, nonminimally coupled scalar fields in general relativity, are shown to be unstable under spherically symmetric perturbations. The instability is related to blowing-up of the effective gravitational constant on a certain sphere.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0201083,
  title  = {Instability of wormholes with a nonminimally coupled scalar field},
  author = {K. A. Bronnikov and S. Grinyok},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0201083},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Latex2e, 4 pages. Minor corrections, a reference added