No static spherically symmetric wormholes in Horndeski theory

2017/11/11 by Oleg Evseev, O. A. Evseev, Oleg Melichev +1
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Differential Geometry Research #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Field (mathematics) #Field theory (psychology) #Geometry #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Physics #Pure mathematics #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar field #Theoretical physics #Wormhole #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.97.124040

published as Phys. Rev. D 97, 124040 (2018)

arxiv created 2017/11/11 · openalex created_date 2017/12/04 · openalex publication_date 2018/06/18 · arxiv updated 2018/06/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We consider the Horndeski theory in four-dimensional space-time as the most general theory with a single scalar field and second order field equations. We show that this theory does not admit stable, static, spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat, Lorentzian wormholes.

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