https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3584-5
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Wormholes admitting conformal Killing vectors and supported by generalized Chaplygin gas
Department of Mathematics, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, 53202-3109, USA
* e-mail: kuhfitti@msoe.edu
Received:
13
July
2015
Accepted:
27
July
2015
Published online:
4
August
2015
When Morris and Thorne first proposed that traversable wormholes may be actual physical objects, they concentrated on the geometry by specifying the shape and redshift functions. This mathematical approach necessarily raises questions regarding the determination of the required stress-energy tensor. This paper discusses a natural way to obtain a complete wormhole solution by assuming that the wormhole (1) is supported by generalized Chaplygin gas and (2) admits conformal Killing vectors.
© The Author(s), 2015