Traversable wormholes from surgically modified Schwarzschild spacetimes

dc.creatorVisser, Matt
dc.date2008-09-04
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:00:41Z
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dc.descriptionIn this paper I present a new class of traversable wormholes. This is done by surgically grafting two Schwarzschild spacetimes together in such a way that no event horizon is permitted to form. This surgery concentrates a non--zero stress--energy on the boundary layer between the two asymptotically flat regions. I shall investigate this stress--energy in detail using the "junction condition" formalism. A feature of the present analysis is that this class of traversable wormholes is sufficiently simple for a (partial) dynamical stability analysis to be carried out. The stability analysis places constraints on the equation of state of the exotic matter that comprises the throat of the wormhole.
dc.descriptionPre-arXiv article from 1989; 12 pages, no figures. (Uploaded to arXiv to help researchers with limited library facilities.)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0927
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0927
dc.identifierNucl.Phys.B328:203-212,1989
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/0550-3213(89)90100-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/206867
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleTraversable wormholes from surgically modified Schwarzschild spacetimes
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