2002/02/17 by Sean A. Hayward
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Classical mechanics #Computer science #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Einstein #Einstein field equations #Energy density #General relativity #Gravitation #Negative energy #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Radiation #Schwarzschild metric #Schwarzschild radius #Space (punctuation) #Theoretical physics #Wormhole #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.65.124016
published as Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 124016 · 3 revtex pages
arxiv created 2002/02/17 · openalex publication_date 2002/06/06 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Traversible wormhole space-times are found as static, spherically symmetric solutions to the Einstein equations with ingoing and outgoing pure radiation of negative energy density. Switching off the radiation causes the wormhole to collapse to a Schwarzschild black hole.