English

More about wormholes in generalized Galileon theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-21 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We consider a class of generalized Galileon theories within General Relativity in space-times of more than two spatial dimensions. We show that these theories do not admit stable, static, spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat and traversable Lorentzian wormholes.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1601.06566,
  title  = {More about wormholes in generalized Galileon theories},
  author = {V. A. Rubakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.06566},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

7 pages, refinement of arXiv:1509.08808 [hep-th]