nLab wormhole

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Context

Gravity

gravity, supergravity

Formalism

Definition

Einstein-Hilbert action, Einstein's equations, general relativity
- first-order formulation of gravity, D'Auria-Fre formulation of supergravity
- gravity as a BF-theory, Plebanski formulation of gravity, teleparallel gravity

Spacetime configurations

Properties

Spacetimes

black hole spacetimes	vanishing angular momentum	positive angular momentum
vanishing charge	Schwarzschild spacetime	Kerr spacetime
positive charge	Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime	Kerr-Newman spacetime

black hole spacetimes with dark energy	vanishing angular momentum	positive angular momentum
vanishing charge	Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime	Kerr-de Sitter spacetime
positive charge	Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter spacetime	Kerr-Newman-de Sitter spacetime

wormhole spacetimes	vanishing angular momentum
vanishing charge	Schwarzschild wormhole
positive charge	Reissner-Nordström wormhole

Quantum theory

quantum gravity
- graviton, gravitino
- string theory

Contents

Idea
Examples
Related pages
References

Idea

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Examples

wormhole spacetimes	vanishing angular momentum
vanishing charge	Schwarzschild wormhole
positive charge	Reissner-Nordström wormhole

Related pages

References

The original article:

Albert Einstein, Nathan Rosen, The Particle Problem in the General Theory of Relativity, Phys. Rev. 48 73 (1935) (doi:10.1103/PhysRev.48.73)

See also:

Wikipedia, Wormhole

Argument that the image of wormhole traversal under AdS-CFT duality is quantum teleportation:

Ping Gao, Daniel Louis Jafferis, Aron C. Wall, Traversable Wormholes via a Double Trace Deformation, Journal of High Energy Physics 2017 151 (2017) [arXiv:1608.05687, doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2017)151]
Juan Maldacena, Douglas Stanford, Zhenbin Yang, Diving into traversable wormholes,Fortsch. Phys. 65 5 (2017) 1700034 [arXiv:1704.05333, doi:10.1002/prop.201700034]

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