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Thin-shell wormholes: Linearization stability

Eric PoissonPhysics Department, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899Matt VisserPhysics Department, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899
1995en
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Abstract

The class of spherically symmetric thin-shell wormholes provides a particularly elegant collection of exemplars for the study of traversable Lorentzian wormholes. In the present paper we consider linearized (spherically symmetric) perturbations around some assumed static solution of the Einstein field equations. This permits us to relate stability issues to the (linearized) equation of state of the exotic matter which is located at the wormhole throat. \textcopyright{} 1995 The American Physical Society.

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