https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-11018-0
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Further considerations about the traversability of thin-shell wormholes
Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires and IFIBA, CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Received:
4
July
2022
Accepted:
7
November
2022
Published online:
16
November
2022
Traversability in relation with tides in thin-shell wormholes is revisited to investigate the possibility of improving recently noted restrictive conditions for a safe travel across a wormhole throat. We consider wormholes mathematically constructed starting from background geometries which are solutions of scalar–tensor theories as dilaton gravity and Brans–Dicke gravity. The advantages of working within such frameworks are studied by examining the dependence of the extrinsic curvature and tides at the throat with the parameters determining the departure from pure relativity; the associated behaviour of tides in the smooth regions of the geometries is also analyzed. Other related but different approaches within pure relativity are discussed in the appendices.
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