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Kaluza-Klein wormholes with the compactified fifth dimension

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-03-14 v1

Abstract

We consider wormhole solutions in five-dimensional Kaluza-Klein gravity in the presence of a massless ghost four-dimensional scalar field. The system possesses two types of topological nontriviality connected with the presence of the scalar field and of a magnetic charge. Mathematically, the presence of the charge appears in the fact that the S3S^3 part of a spacetime metric is the Hopf bundle S3S2S^3 \rightarrow S^2 with fibre S1S^1. We show that the fifth dimension spanned on the sphere S1S^1 is compactified in the sense that asymptotically, at large distances from the throat, the size of S1S^1 is equal to some constant, the value of which can be chosen to lie, say, in the Planck region. Then, from the four-dimensional point of view, such a wormhole contains a radial magnetic (monopole) field, and an asymptotic four-dimensional observer sees a wormhole with the compactified fifth dimension.

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@article{arxiv.1309.1320,
  title  = {Kaluza-Klein wormholes with the compactified fifth dimension},
  author = {Vladimir Dzhunushaliev and Vladimir Folomeev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.1320},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures