Cylindrical wormholes in DGP gravity

Martín G. Richarte
Phys. Rev. D 87, 067503 – Published 26 March 2013

Abstract

We construct traversable thin-shell wormholes in the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati theory with cylindrical symmetry applying the cut and paste procedure to a flat black string solution of the five-dimensional vacuum Einstein field equations. In contrast to general relativity case, where thin-shell wormholes violate both weak and null energy conditions, we show that static wormholes are supported by normal matter while vacuum wormholes do not exist.

  • Received 13 February 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.067503

© 2013 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Martín G. Richarte*

  • Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires and IFIBA, CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón I, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • *martin@df.uba.ar

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Vol. 87, Iss. 6 — 15 March 2013

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