Traversable wormholes: Minimum violation of the null energy condition revisited

O. B. Zaslavskii
Phys. Rev. D 76, 044017 – Published 22 August 2007

Abstract

It was argued in literature that traversable wormholes can exist with an arbitrarily small violation of null energy conditions. I show that if the amount of exotic material near the wormhole throat tends to zero, either this leads to a horn instead of a wormhole or the throat approaches the horizon in such a way that infinitely large stresses develop on the throat.

  • Received 10 May 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.76.044017

©2007 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

O. B. Zaslavskii*

  • Astronomical Institute of Kharkov V. N. Karazin National University, 35 Sumskaya Street, Kharkov, 61022, Ukraine

  • *ozaslav@kharkov.ua

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Vol. 76, Iss. 4 — 15 August 2007

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