https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4547-1
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Wormhole supported by dark energy admitting conformal motion
1
Department of Mathematics, Government General Degree College, Singur, Hooghly, West Bengal, 712409, India
2
Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700032, India
3
Department of Mathematics and Statistics (Commerce Evening), St. Xavier’s College, 30, Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700016, India
* e-mail: rahaman@associates.iucaa.in
Received:
29
March
2016
Accepted:
21
November
2016
Published online:
24
December
2016
In this article, we study the possibility of sustaining static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole geometries admitting conformal motion in Einstein gravity, which presents a more systematic approach to search a relation between matter and geometry. In wormhole physics, the presence of exotic matter is a fundamental ingredient and we show that this exotic source can be dark energy type which support the existence of wormhole spacetimes. In this work we model a wormhole supported by dark energy which admits conformal motion. We also discuss the possibility of the detection of wormholes in the outer regions of galactic halos by means of gravitational lensing. Studies of the total gravitational energy for the exotic matter inside a static wormhole configuration are also performed.
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