Geodesic completeness in a wormhole spacetime with horizons

Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia, and A. Sanchez-Puente
Phys. Rev. D 92, 044047 – Published 26 August 2015

Abstract

The geometry of a spacetime containing a wormhole generated by a spherically symmetric electric field is investigated in detail. These solutions arise in high-energy extensions of general relativity formulated within the Palatini approach and coupled to Maxwell electrodynamics. Even though curvature divergences generically arise at the wormhole throat, we find that these spacetimes are geodesically complete. This provides an explicit example where curvature divergences do not imply spacetime singularities.

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  • Received 28 April 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.044047

© 2015 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Gonzalo J. Olmo1,2,*, D. Rubiera-Garcia3,†, and A. Sanchez-Puente1,‡

  • 1Departamento de Física Teórica and IFIC, Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia—CSIC. Universidad de Valencia, Burjassot 46100, Valencia, Spain
  • 2Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 58051-900 João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil
  • 3Center for Field Theory and Particle Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, 200433 Shanghai, China

  • *gonzalo.olmo@csic.es
  • drubiera@fudan.edu.cn
  • asanchez@ific.uv.es

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Vol. 92, Iss. 4 — 15 August 2015

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