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Simple traversable wormholes violating energy conditions only near the Planck scale

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-04-06 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present a static and axisymmetric traversable wormhole spacetime with vanishing Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) mass which is characterized by a length parameter ll and a deformation parameter aa and reduces to the massless Kerr vacuum wormhole as l0l\to 0. 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 (a=0a=0), the areal radius of the wormhole throat is exactly ll and all the standard energy conditions are respected outside the proper radial distance approximately 1.60l1.60l from the throat. While the curvature at the throat is beyond the Planck scale if ll is identical to the Planck length lpl_{\rm p}, our wormhole may be a semi-classical model for l10lpl\simeq 10l_{\rm p}. With l=10lpl=10l_{\rm p}, the total amount of the negative energy supporting this wormhole is only E26.5mpc2E\simeq -26.5m_{\rm p}c^2, which is the rest mass energy of about 5.77×104g-5.77\times 10^{-4}{\rm g}. 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