TY - JOUR
T1 - Einstein-Rosen "bridge" needs lightlike brane source
AU - Guendelman, Eduardo
AU - Kaganovich, Alexander
AU - Nissimov, Emil
AU - Pacheva, Svetlana
N1 - Funding Information:
We are particularly indebted to Werner Israel and Eric Poisson for a series of illuminating correspondence and incentive comments. E.N. and S.P. are supported by Bulgarian NSF grant DO 02-257 . Also, all of us acknowledge support of our collaboration through the exchange agreement between the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
PY - 2009/11/16
Y1 - 2009/11/16
N2 - The Einstein-Rosen "bridge" wormhole solution proposed in the classic paper (Einstein and Rosen (1935) [1]) does not satisfy the vacuum Einstein equations at the wormhole throat. We show that the fully consistent formulation of the original Einstein-Rosen "bridge" requires solving Einstein equations of bulk D = 4 gravity coupled to a lightlike brane with a well-defined world-volume action. The non-vanishing contribution of Einstein-Rosen "bridge" solution to the right-hand side of Einstein equations at the throat matches precisely the surface stress-energy tensor of the lightlike brane which automatically occupies the throat ("horizon straddling") - a feature triggered by the world-volume lightlike brane dynamics.
AB - The Einstein-Rosen "bridge" wormhole solution proposed in the classic paper (Einstein and Rosen (1935) [1]) does not satisfy the vacuum Einstein equations at the wormhole throat. We show that the fully consistent formulation of the original Einstein-Rosen "bridge" requires solving Einstein equations of bulk D = 4 gravity coupled to a lightlike brane with a well-defined world-volume action. The non-vanishing contribution of Einstein-Rosen "bridge" solution to the right-hand side of Einstein equations at the throat matches precisely the surface stress-energy tensor of the lightlike brane which automatically occupies the throat ("horizon straddling") - a feature triggered by the world-volume lightlike brane dynamics.
KW - Dynamical brane tension
KW - Einstein-Rosen wormhole
KW - Horizon "straddling"
KW - Non-Nambu-Goto lightlike p-branes
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2009.10.062
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2009.10.062
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:71849090614
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 681
SP - 457
EP - 462
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 5
ER -