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Cosmological wormholes in theories of gravity

Bahamonde, S; Jamil, M; Pavlovic, P; Sossich, M; (2016) Cosmological wormholes in theories of gravity. Physical Review D , 94 , Article 044041. 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.044041. Green open access

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Abstract

Motivated by recent proposals of possible wormhole existence in galactic halos, we analyze the cosmological evolution of wormhole solutions in modified f(R) gravity. We construct a dynamical wormhole that asymptotically approaches a Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) universe, with supporting material going to the perfect isotropic fluid described by the equation of state for a radiation- and matter-dominated universe respectively. Our analysis is based on an approximation of a small wormhole—a wormhole that can be treated as matched with the FLRW metric at some radial coordinate much smaller than the Hubble radius, so that cosmological boundary conditions are satisfied. With a special interest in viable wormhole solutions, we refer to the results of the reconstruction procedure and use f(R) functions which lead to the experimentally confirmed ΛCDM nexpansion history of the Universe. Solutions we find imply no need for exotic matter near the throat of considered wormholes, while in the limit of f(R)=R this need is always present during radiation- and matter-dominated epochs.

Type: Article
Title: Cosmological wormholes in theories of gravity
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.044041
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.044041
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2017 American Physical Society. All rights reserved.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1521024
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