English

Regular phantom black holes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

For self-gravitating, static, spherically symmetric, minimally coupled scalar fields with arbitrary potentials and negative kinetic energy (favored by the cosmological observations), we give a classification of possible regular solutions to the field equations with flat, de Sitter and AdS asymptotic behavior. Among the 16 presented classes of regular rsolutions are traversable wormholes, Kantowski-Sachs (KS) cosmologies beginning and ending with de Sitter stages, and asymptotically flat black holes (BHs). The Penrose diagram of a regular BH is Schwarzschild-like, but the singularity at r=0r=0 is replaced by a de Sitter infinity, which gives a hypothetic BH explorer a chance to survive. Such solutions also lead to the idea that our Universe could be created from a phantom-dominated collapse in another universe, with KS expansion and isotropization after crossing the horizon. Explicit examples of regular solutions are built and discussed. Possible generalizations include kk-essence type scalar fields (with a potential) and scalar-tensor theories of gravity.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0511109,
  title  = {Regular phantom black holes},
  author = {K. A. Bronnikov and J. C. Fabris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0511109},
  year   = {2009}
}

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