2003/06/02 by W. F. Kao, Kao, W. F., Chopin Soo +1
Computer Science · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Structural Analysis and Optimization #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0306004
4 pages
arxiv created 2003/06/02 · openalex publication_date 2003/06/02 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We show explicitly that traversable wormholes requiring exotic matter in 4-dimensions nevertheless have acceptable stress-tensors obeying reasonable energy conditions in higher dimensions if the wormholes are regarded as being embedded in higher dimensional space-times satisfying Einstein's field equations. From the 4-dimensional perspective, the existence of higher dimensions may thus facilitate wormhole and time-machine constructions through access to "exotic matter".