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Title: Nonlinear instability of wormholes supported by exotic dust and a magnetic field

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Instituto de Fisica y Matematicas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Edificio C-3, Ciudad Universitaria, 58040 Morelia, Michoacan (Mexico)

Recently, spherically symmetric, static wormholes supported by exotic dust and a radial magnetic field have been derived and argued to be stable with respect to linear radial fluctuations. In this report we point out that these wormholes are unstable due to the formation of shell-crossing singularities when the nonlinearities of the theory are taken into account.

OSTI ID:
21409356
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 81, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.047502; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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