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Wormholes with a warped extra dimension?

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-07-20 v2

Abstract

We investigate the role of a specifically warped extra dimension in constructing examples of higher dimensional spacetimes representing Lorentzian wormholes. The warping chosen is largely inspired by the well-known non-static Witten bubble of nothing, though our spacetimes are static and geometrically different. Vacuum solutions in D5D\geq 5 dimensions and others (non-asymptotically flat) with `perfectly normal' matter stress energy are interpreted as possible Lorentzian wormholes. Asymptotically flat wormholes in D5D\geq 5 with `exotic matter' and within this class of spacetimes also appear to exist in all dimensions. A wormhole-black hole correspondence via double Wick rotation is revisited and discussed. Finally, geodesic motion as well as the behaviour of geodesic congruences, in the sub-class of five dimensional, warped, vacuum wormhole spacetimes is also briefly analysed, with the aim of obtaining characteristic properties and specific signatures which may help improve our understanding of these geometries.

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@article{arxiv.2203.14631,
  title  = {Wormholes with a warped extra dimension?},
  author = {Sayan Kar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.14631},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

20 pages, 3 figures. Article prepared for the special issue of General Relativity and Gravitation, dedicated to the memory of Professor Thanu Padmanabhan. References added

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