English

Magnetized dusty black holes and wormholes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-11-18 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We consider the generalized Tolman solution of general relativity, describing the evolution of a spherical dust cloud in the presence of an external electric or magnetic field. The solution contains three arbitrary functions f(R)f(R), F(R)F(R) and τ0(R)\tau_0(R), where RR is a radial coordinate in the comoving reference frame. The solution splits into three branches corresponding to hyperbolic (f>0f >0), parabolic (f=0f=0) and elliptic (f<0f < 0) types of motion. In such models, we study the possible existence of wormhole throats defined as spheres of minimum radius at a fixed time instant, and prove the existence of throats in the elliptic branch under certain conditions imposed on the arbitrary functions. It is further shown that the normal to a throat is a timelike vector (except for the instant of maximum expansion, when this vector is null), hence a throat is in general located in a T-region of space-time. Thus if such a dust cloud is placed between two empty (Reissner-Nordstr\"om or Schwarzschild) space-time regions, the whole configuration is a black hole rather than a wormhole. However, dust clouds with throats can be inscribed into closed isotropic cosmological models filled with dust to form wormholes which exist for a finite period of time and experience expansion and contraction together with the corresponding cosmology. Explicit examples and numerical estimates are presented. The possible traversability of wormhole-like evolving dust layers is established by a numerical study of radial null geodesics.

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@article{arxiv.2109.12670,
  title  = {Magnetized dusty black holes and wormholes},
  author = {Kirill A. Bronnikov and Pavel E. Kashargin and Sergey V. Sushkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.12670},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

17 pages, 5 figures. Some comments and references added, matching to the published version, as well as other minor corrections