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Once again on thin-shell wormholes in scalar-tensor gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-07-22 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

It is proved that all thin-shell wormholes built from two identical regions of vacuum static, spherically symmetric space-times have a negative shell surface energy density in any scalar-tensor theory of gravity with a non-ghost massless scalar field and a non-ghost graviton.

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@article{arxiv.0903.5173,
  title  = {Once again on thin-shell wormholes in scalar-tensor gravity},
  author = {Kirill A. Bronnikov and Alexei A. Starobinsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.5173},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, no figures. A few misprints corrected. Version published in MPLA

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