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Thin-shell wormholes: Linearization stability

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

The class of spherically-symmetric thin-shell wormholes provides a particularly elegant collection of exemplars for the study of traversable Lorentzian wormholes. In the present paper we consider linearized (spherically symmetric) perturbations around some assumed static solution of the Einstein field equations. This permits us to relate stability issues to the (linearized) equation of state of the exotic matter which is located at the wormhole throat.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9506083,
  title  = {Thin-shell wormholes: Linearization stability},
  author = {Eric Poisson and Matt Visser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9506083},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages; ReV_TeX 3.0; one postscript figure