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Self Sustained Traversable Wormholes?

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-11 v1 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We compute the graviton one loop contribution to a classical energy in a traversable wormhole background. Such a contribution 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 self-consistent source for the traversable wormhole.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0501105,
  title  = {Self Sustained Traversable Wormholes?},
  author = {Remo Garattini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0501105},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

RevTeX 4, 12 pages. Accepted for publication on Classical and Quantum Gravity