Vacuum thin shell solutions in five dimensional lovelock gravity

C. Garraffo, G. Giribet, E. Gravanis, S. Willison

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Abstract

Junction conditions for vacuum solutions in five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity are studied. Two spherically symmetric regions of space-time are joined in with vanishing stress tensor on the junction surface. Such solutions are a generalized kind of spherically symmetric empty space solutions, described by metric functions of the class C0. New global structures arise with surprising features. In particular, vacuum wormholes do exist in this theory. These can be regarded as gravitational solitons, which connect two asymptotically (Anti) de-Sitter spaces with different masses and/or different effective cosmological constants. We prove the existence of both static and dynamical solutions and discuss their (in)stability under perturbations that preserve the symmetry.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Dev. in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG 2009 Meeting on General Relativity
Pages1964-1966
Number of pages3
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, MG 2009 - Paris, France
Duration: 12 Jul 200918 Jul 2009

Other

Other12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, MG 2009
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period12/07/0918/07/09

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