Phys. Rev. D 58, 024014 (1998) [6 pages]Rotating traversable wormholesReceived 2 April 1998; published 24 June 1998 The general form of a stationary, axially symmetric traversable wormhole is discussed. This provides an explicit class of rotating wormholes that generalizes the static, spherically symmetric ones first considered by Morris and Thorne. In agreement with general analyses, it is verified that such a wormhole generically violates the null energy condition at the throat. However, for suitable model wormholes, there can be classes of geodesics falling through it which do not encounter any energy-condition-violating matter. The possible presence of an ergoregion surrounding the throat is also noted. © 1998 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.58.024014
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.58.024014
PACS:
04.20.Gz, 04.20.Cv, 04.20.Jb
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