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Phys. Rev. D 77, 024023 (2008) [12 pages]

Self-similar cosmological solutions with dark energy. II. Black holes, naked singularities, and wormholes

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Hideki Maeda1,2,3,4,*, Tomohiro Harada4,†, and B. J. Carr5,6,‡
1Centro de Estudios Científicos (CECS), Arturo Prat 514, Valdivia, Chile
2Department of Physics, International Christian University, 3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo 181-8585, Japan
3Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
4Department of Physics, Rikkyo University, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
5Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom
6Research Center for the Early Universe, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

Received 4 July 2007; published 11 January 2008

We use a combination of numerical and analytical methods, exploiting the equations derived in a preceding paper, to classify all spherically symmetric self-similar solutions which are asymptotically Friedmann at large distances and contain a perfect fluid with equation of state p=(γ-1)μ with 0<γ<2/3. The expansion of the Friedmann universe is accelerated in this case. We find a one-parameter family of self-similar solutions representing a black hole embedded in a Friedmann background. This suggests that, in contrast to the positive pressure case, black holes in a universe with dark energy can grow as fast as the Hubble horizon if they are not too large. There are also self-similar solutions which contain a central naked singularity with negative mass and solutions which represent a Friedmann universe connected to either another Friedmann universe or some other cosmological model. The latter are interpreted as self-similar cosmological white hole or wormhole solutions. The throats of these wormholes are defined as two-dimensional spheres with minimal area on a spacelike hypersurface and they are all nontraversable because of the absence of a past null infinity.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.024023
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.024023
PACS:
04.70.Bw, 04.40.Nr, 95.36.+x, 97.60.Lf

*hideki@cecs.cl

harada@rikkyo.ac.jp

B.J.Carr@qmul.ac.uk