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New rotating Lorentzian wormhole spacetime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-03-05 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A rotating version of a known static, spherically symmetric, zero Ricci scalar Lorentzian wormhole is constructed. It turns out that for this given non-rotating geometry, the standard Newman-Janis algorithm does not produce a rotating wormhole and, therefore, the method pioneered by Azreg-A\"inou has to be used. The rotating spacetime thus obtained is shown to be regular with wormhole features, though it is no longer a R=0R=0 spacetime. The required matter is found to violate the energy conditions, as expected. A few other characteristic properties of this new rotating spacetime are mentioned. Finally, we calculate the shadow for this geometry and discuss its features {\em vis-a-vis} the Kerr geometry and available event horizon telescope observations.

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@article{arxiv.2411.09202,
  title  = {New rotating Lorentzian wormhole spacetime},
  author = {Anjan Kar and Soumya Jana and Sayan Kar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.09202},
  year   = {2025}
}

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