Simple traversable wormholes violating energy conditions only near the Planck scale
Abstract
We present a static and axisymmetric traversable wormhole spacetime with vanishing Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) mass which is characterized by a length parameter and a deformation parameter and reduces to the massless Kerr vacuum wormhole as . The spacetime is analytic everywhere and regularizes a ring-like conical singularity of the massless Kerr wormhole by virtue of a localized exotic matter which violates the standard energy conditions only near the wormhole throat. In the spherically symmetric case (), the areal radius of the wormhole throat is exactly and all the standard energy conditions are respected outside the proper radial distance approximately from the throat. While the curvature at the throat is beyond the Planck scale if is identical to the Planck length , our wormhole may be a semi-classical model for . With , the total amount of the negative energy supporting this wormhole is only , which is the rest mass energy of about . It is shown that the geodesic behavior on the equatorial plane does not qualitatively change by the localization of an exotic matter.
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@article{arxiv.2107.07052,
title = {Simple traversable wormholes violating energy conditions only near the Planck scale},
author = {Hideki Maeda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.07052},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
24 pages, 8 figures; v4, final version to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity, including new discussions on the Misner-Sharp quasi-local mass and Fig. 4