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Wormhole Solutions in Modified Brans-Dicke Theory

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-03-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider a modified Brans-Dicke theory in which except the usual Brans-Dicke parameter a new dimensionful parameter appears which modifies the kinetic term of the scalar field coupled to gravity. Solving the coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations we find new spherically symmetric solutions. Depending on the choices of the parameters these solutions reduce to the Schwarzschild solution of General Relativity and they give new wormhole solutions which depend on the new parameter.

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@article{arxiv.1912.04005,
  title  = {Wormhole Solutions in Modified Brans-Dicke Theory},
  author = {Eleftherios Papantonopoulos and Christoforos Vlachos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.04005},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Major revision. The Introduction was extended explaining the main motivation of the work. Explanations on the technical details were given. More references were added. To be published in Phys. Rev. D. 18 pages , 7 figures

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