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Traversable wormholes: minimum violation of null energy condition revisited

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

Abstract

It was argued in literature that traversable wormholes can exist with arbitrarily small violation of null energy conditions. We show that if the amount of exotic material near the wormhole throat tends to zero, either this leads to a horn instead of a wormhole or the throat approaches the horizon in such a way that infnitely large stresses develop on the throat.

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@article{arxiv.0707.1487,
  title  = {Traversable wormholes: minimum violation of null energy condition revisited},
  author = {O. B. Zaslavskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.1487},
  year   = {2008}
}

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12 pages. To appear in PRD

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