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ONCE AGAIN ON THIN-SHELL WORMHOLES IN SCALAR–TENSOR GRAVITY

KIRILL A. BRONNIKOV

Center of Gravitation and Fundamental Metrology, VNIIMS, 46 Ozyornaya St., Moscow 117361, Russia

Institute of Gravitation and Cosmology, PFUR, 6 Miklukho-Maklaya St., Moscow 117198, Russia

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ALEXEI A. STAROBINSKY

Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of RAS, Moscow 119334, Russia

RESCEU, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732309030928Cited by:25 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

It is proved that all thin-shell wormholes built from two identical regions of vacuum static, spherically symmetric spacetimes have a negative shell surface energy density in any scalar–tensor theory of gravity with a non-ghost massless scalar field and a non-ghost graviton.

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