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arxiv: 0906.0181 · v1 · submitted 2009-05-31 · 🌀 gr-qc

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Brans-Dicke wormholes in the Jordan and Einstein frames

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keywords framewormholesbrans-dickeeinsteinexistjordansolutionswormhole
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We examine the possibility of static wormhole solutions in the vacuum Brans-Dicke theory both in the original (Jordan) frame and in the conformally rescaled (Einstein) frame. It turns out that, in the former frame, wormholes exist only in a very narrow interval of the coupling parameter, viz., -3/2<omega<-4/3. It is shown that these wormholes are not traversable in practice. In the latter frame, wormhole solutions do not exist at all unless energy conditions are violated by hand.

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