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AT3 - Wormholes, Energy Conditions and Time Machines

Speaker

Sushkov, Sergey

Coauthors

Korolev, Roman V.

Talk Title

Exact Wormhole Solutions with Nonminimal Kinetic Coupling

Abstract

We consider static spherically symmetric solutions in the scalar-tensor theory of gravity with a scalar field possessing the nonminimal kinetic coupling to the curvature. The lagrangian of the theory contains the term $(\varepsilon g^{\mu\nu}+\eta G^{\mu\nu})\phi_{,\mu}\phi_{,\nu}$ and represents a particular case of the general Horndeski lagrangian, which leads to second-order equations of motion. We use the Rinaldi approach to construct analytical solutions describing wormholes with nonminimal kinetic coupling. It is shown that wormholes exist only if $\varepsilon=-1$ (phantom case) and $\eta>0$. The wormhole throat connects two anti-de Sitter spacetimes. The wormhole metric has a coordinate singularity at the throat. However, since all curvature invariants are regular, there is no curvature singularity there.

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AT3-824SU741EY.pdf

 

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