Static and symmetric wormholes respecting energy conditions in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Details Static and symmetric wormholes respecting energy conditions in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity Static and symmetric wormholes respecting energy conditions in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

2008-03-12

arxiv.org/abs/0803.1704v4

Phys.Rev.D78:024005,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

10 pages, 2 tables; v2, typos corrected, references added; v3, interpretation of the solution for n=5 in section IV corrected;

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.78.024005

Properties of $n(\ge 5)$-dimensional static wormhole solutions are investigated in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with or without a cosmological constant $\Lambda$. We assume that the spacetime has symmetries corresponding to the isometries of an $(n-2)$-dimensional maximally symmetric space with the sectional curvature $k=\pm 1, 0$. It is also assumed that the metric is at least $C^{2}$ and the $(n-2)$-dimensional maximally symmetric subspace is compact. Depending on the existence or absence of the general relativistic limit $\alpha \to 0$, solutions are classified into general relativistic (GR) and non-GR branches, respectively, where $\alpha$ is the Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant. We show that a wormhole throat respecting the dominant energy condition coincides with a branch surface in the GR branch, otherwise the null energy condition is violated there. In the non-GR branch, it is shown that there is no wormhole solution for $k\alpha \ge 0$. For the matter field with zero tangential pressure, it is also shown in the non-GR branch with $k\alpha<0$ and $\Lambda \le 0$ that the dominant energy condition holds at the wormhole throat if the radius of the throat satisfies some inequality. In the vacuum case, a fine-tuning of the coupling constants is shown to be necessary and the radius of a wormhole throat is fixed. Explicit wormhole solutions respecting the energy conditions in the whole spacetime are obtained in the vacuum and dust cases with $k=-1$ and $\alpha>0$.

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