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Junction Conditions, Radial Stability, Thermodynamics, Optical Geometry and Appearance of Polymer-Quintessence Thin-Shell Wormholes

Jonathan A. Rebouças·Edson Otoniel·M. C. Araújo·J. Furtado·Celio R. Muniz
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Thin-shell wormholes built from effective black hole geometries are sensitive not only to the lapse function but also to the choice of areal radius. We construct a reflection-symmetric thin-shell wormhole from the positive-lapse sector of a polymer black hole surrounded by Kiselev-type quintessence and keep the nonareal angular function throughout the junction, stability, thermodynamic, and optical analyses. The Israel junction conditions give a negative surface energy density for every static throat on the positive branch, while the tangential null and intrinsic strong energy combinations are controlled by the local lapse slope. The radial dynamics is written as an effective-potential problem in which the nonareal sector produces a momentum-flux term and modifies the local stability criterion for surface equations of state with explicit radius dependence. For the sampled calibrated configurations, the linear barotropic and variable phantomlike closures remain locally unstable, whereas the variable Chaplygin gas admits finite linear radial stability windows. The same geometric correction also modifies the local first-law balance and shell entropy bookkeeping, while the optical analysis shows that cross-throat propagation generates additional inner image branches despite the wormhole and black hole geometries sharing the same exterior critical curve. These results identify how polymer corrections and a quintessence environment jointly reorganize the matter content, radial response, thermodynamic bookkeeping, and optical appearance of the resulting thin-shell wormhole.

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Jonathan A. Rebouças, Edson Otoniel, M. C. Araújo, J. Furtado, Celio R. Muniz. 2026-07-29. Junction Conditions, Radial Stability, Thermodynamics, Optical Geometry and Appearance of Polymer-Quintessence Thin-Shell Wormholes. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26882

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