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Self sustained traversable wormholes and the equation of state

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v1 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We compute the graviton one loop contribution to a classical energy in a \textit{traversable} wormhole background. The form of the shape function considered is obtained by the equation of state p=ωρp=\omega\rho. We investigate the size of the wormhole as a function of the parameter ω\omega. The investigation is evaluated by means of a variational approach with Gaussian trial wave functionals. A zeta function regularization is involved to handle with divergences. A renormalization procedure is introduced and the finite one loop energy is considered as a \textit{self-consistent} source for the traversable wormhole.The case of the phantom region is briefly discussed.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0701019,
  title  = {Self sustained traversable wormholes and the equation of state},
  author = {Remo Garattini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0701019},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Uses RevTeX 4. 21 pages. Submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity. Extended version of the talk given at ERE2006 (Palma de Mallorca, September 4-8, 2006) and of the talk given at MG11-GT5, Berlin, 23-29 July, 2006