English

Phantom evolving wormholes with big rip singularities

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-15 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Space Physics

Abstract

We investigate a family of inhomogeneous and anisotropic gravitational fields exhibiting a future singularity at a finite value of the proper time. The studied spherically symmetric spacetimes are asymptotically Friedmann-Robertson-Walker at spatial infinity and describe wormhole configurations filled with two matter components: one inhomogeneous and anisotropic fluid and another isotropic and homogeneously distributed fluid, characterized by the supernegative equation of state \omega=p/\rho < -1. In previously constructed wormholes, the notion of the phantom energy was used in a more extended sense than in cosmology, where the phantom energy is considered a homogeneously distributed fluid. Specifically, for some static wormhole geometries the phantom matter was considered as an inhomogeneous and anisotropic fluid, with radial and lateral pressures satisfying the relations pr/ρ<1p_{r}/\rho<-1 and plprp_{_l} \neq p_r, respectively. In this paper we construct phantom evolving wormhole models filled with an isotropic and homogeneous component, described by a barotropic or viscous phantom energy, and ending in a big rip singularity. In two of considered cases the equation of state parameter is constrained to be less than -1, while in the third model the finite-time future singularity may occur for ω<1\omega<-1, as well as for 1<ω1-1 < \omega \leq 1.

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@article{arxiv.1302.3748,
  title  = {Phantom evolving wormholes with big rip singularities},
  author = {Mauricio Cataldo and Paola Meza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.3748},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

9 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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