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Phys. Rev. D 78, 064071 (2008) [10 pages]

Slowly rotating scalar field wormholes: The second order approximation

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P. E. Kashargin1 and S. V. Sushkov1,2,*
1Department of General Relativity and Gravitation, Kazan State University, Kremlevskaya str. 18, Kazan 420008, Russia
2Department of Mathematics, Tatar State University of Humanities and Education, Tatarstan str. 2, Kazan 420021, Russia

Received 18 July 2008; published 30 September 2008

We discuss rotating wormholes in general relativity with a scalar field with negative kinetic energy. To solve the problem, we use the assumption about slow rotation. The role of a small dimensionless parameter plays the ratio of the linear velocity of rotation of the wormhole’s throat and the velocity of light. We construct the rotating wormhole solution in the second-order approximation with respect to the small parameter. The analysis shows that the asymptotical mass of the rotating wormhole is greater than that of the nonrotating one, and the null energy condition violation in the rotating wormhole spacetime is weaker than that in the nonrotating one.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.064071
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.064071
PACS:
04.20.Jb, 04.25.Nx, 98.80.Cq

*sergey_sushkov@mail.ru;

sergey.sushkov@ksu.ru