Phys. Rev. D 77, 044043 (2008) [11 pages]Exact geometric optics in a Morris-Thorne wormhole spacetimeReceived 17 December 2007; published 26 February 2008 The simplicity of the Morris-Thorne wormhole spacetime permits us to determine null and timelike geodesics by means of elliptic integral functions and Jacobian elliptic functions. This analytic solution makes it possible to find a geodesic which connects two distant events. An exact gravitational lensing, an illumination calculation, and even an interactive visualization become possible. © 2008 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.044043
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.044043
PACS:
04.20.−q, 04.20.Jb
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