Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1993-03-03
Nucl.Phys. B416 (1994) 895-906
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
plain LaTeX, 13 pages
Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(94)90560-6
The recent renaissance of wormhole physics has led to a very disturbing observation: If traversable wormholes exist then it appears to be rather easy to to transform such wormholes into time machines. This extremely disturbing state of affairs has lead Hawking to promulgate his chronology protection conjecture. This paper continues a program begun in an earlier paper [Physical Review {\bf D47}, 554--565 (1993), hepth@xxx/9202090]. An explicit calculation of the vacuum expectation value of the renormalized stress--energy tensor in wormhole spacetimes is presented. Point--splitting techniques are utilized. Particular attention is paid to computation of the Green function [in its Hadamard form], and the structural form of the stress-energy tensor near short closed spacelike geodesics. Detailed comparisons with previous calculations are presented, leading to a pleasingly unified overview of the situation.
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