On a New Approach for Constructing Wormholes in Einstein-Born-Infeld Gravity
Abstract
We study a new approach for the wormhole construction in Einstein-Born-Infeld gravity, which does not require exotic matters in the Einstein equation. The Born-Infeld field equation is not modified from "coordinate independent" conditions of continuous metric tensor and its derivatives, even though the Born-Infeld fields have discontinuities in their derivatives at the throat in general. We study the relation of the newly introduced conditions with the usual continuity equation for the energy-momentum tensor and the gravitational Bianchi identity. We find that there is no violation of energy conditions for the Born-Infeld fields contrary to the usual approaches. The exoticity of energy-momentum tensor is not essential for sustaining wormholes. Some open problems are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.1608.00445,
title = {On a New Approach for Constructing Wormholes in Einstein-Born-Infeld Gravity},
author = {Jin Young Kim and Mu-In Park},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00445},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Minor revision to improve the clarity, Corrected typos, Added reference and footnote