Can extra dimensional effects allow wormholes without exotic matter?

We explore the existence of Lorentzian wormholes in the context of an effective on-brane, scalar-tensor theory of gravity. In such theories, the timelike convergence condition, which is always violated for wormholes, has contributions, via the field equations, from on-brane matter as well as from an...

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Main Authors: Sayan Kar, Sayantani Lahiri, Soumitra SenGupta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-11-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269315007145