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Inflating Lorentzian wormholes
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It has been speculated that Lorentzian wormholes of the Morris-Thorne type might be allowed by the laws of physics at submicroscopic, e.g., Planck, scales and that a sufficiently advanced civilization might be able to enlarge them to classical size. The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility that inflation might provide a natural mechanism for the enlargement of such wormholes to macroscopic size. A new classical metric is presented for a Lorentzian wormhole which is embedded in a flat de Sitter space. It is shown that the throat and the proper length of the wormhole inflate. The resulting properties and stress-energy tensor associated with this metric are discussed.
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- Authors
- Roman, T. A.
- Venue
- Physical Review D
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1993-02-15
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1370-1379
- ISSN
- 0556-2821 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2125053324
- Cited by
- 176
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 5.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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