The Effect of Negative-Energy Shells on the Schwarzschild Black Hole

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2009-07-03

arxiv.org/abs/0907.0696v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

12 pages, 10 figures

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We construct Penrose diagrams for Schwarzschild spacetimes joined by massless shells of matter, in the process correcting minor flaws in the similar diagrams drawn by Dray and 't Hooft, and confirming their result that such shells generate a horizon shift. We then consider shells with negative energy density, showing that the horizon shift in this case allows for travel between the heretofore causally separated exterior regions of the Schwarzschild geometry. These drawing techniques are then used to investigate the properties of successive shells, joining multiple Schwarzschild regions. Again, the presence of negative-energy shells leads to a causal connection between the exterior regions, even in (some) cases with two successive shells of equal but opposite total energy.

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