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Sung-Won Kim

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Charged traversable wormholes: charge without charge

We present and investigate charged wormhole solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations supported by anisotropic matter fields, with the purpose of establishing their physical plausibility as traversable wormholes. To this end, we examine the flare-out condition and evaluate tidal forces to confirm their traversability. We also analyze light deflection around these wormholes to provide observational implications. Additionally, we attempt to construct rotating generalizations of the solutions by applying and modifying the Newman-Janis algorithm. Our results suggest that the obtained geometries offer a concrete realization of the concept of ``charge without charge".

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Wormhole Effective Mass and Gravitational Waves by Binary Systems Containing Wormhole

We considered the generation of gravitational waves by the binary system associated with a wormhole. In the Newtonian limit, the gravitational potential of a wormhole requires the effective mass of the wormhole taking into account radial tension effects. This definition allows us to derive gravitational wave production in homogeneous and heterogeneous binary systems. Therefore, we studied gravitational waves generation by orbiting wormhole-wormhole and wormhole-black hole binary systems before coalescence. Cases involving negative mass require more careful handling. We also calculated the energy loss to gravitational radiation by a particle orbiting around the wormhole and by a particle moving straight through the wormhole mouth, respectively.

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Gravitational Waves by Perturbation of a Slowly Rotating Thin-Shell Wormhole

In this paper, the gravitational wave generation by a slowly rotating thin-shell wormhole is considered. Since the rotating thin-shell wormhole is assumed to be an axisymmetric rigid body, the rotation axis coincides with the largest principal axis which means there is no precession motion. However, if there is a perturbation in the angular velocity, the rotating wormhole can move with precession by perturbation which make arise the gravitational waves. We derive the gravitational wave spectrum, energy loss rate, and angular momentum loss rate.

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Gravitational Waves by the Perturbation of a Rotating Axisymmetric Rigid Body

Precession is one of the important mechanisms of gravitational wave generation in astrophysics. In general, free precession of a rigid body can be caused by the rotation of a triaxial body. In the case of symmetric body, if only the principal axis does not coincide with the axis of rotation, then there is the precession. When a symmetric body rotates around one of its principal axes, the body cannot move with precession. However, when there is a perturbation in angular velocity of the symmetric body spinning around the principal axis of the largest moment, the body can have a precession motion. In this paper, the wave forms and their characteristics of gravitational waves by the perturbation of a rotating axisymmetric rigid body are studied.

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The Gravitational Perturbation of a Morris-Thorne Wormhole and The Newman-Penrose Formalism

The gravitational perturbation of the Morris-Thorne wormhole has been derived by using the Newman-Penrose formalism. We apply Teukolsky equation to the wormhole spacetime, compute the perturbed Weyl scalars, $Ψ_{4}^{(1)}$ and obtain its master equation, decomposed in spin weighted spherical harmonics with spin weight $-2$. For simplicity, we consider the perturbation provoked by a single gaussian pulse of pressureless dust matter.

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Evolution of Cosmological Horizons of Wormhole Cosmology

Recently we solved the Einstein's field equations to obtain the exact solution of the cosmological model with the Morris-Thorne type wormhole. We found the apparent horizons and analyzed their geometric natures, including the causal tructures. We also derived the Hawking temperature near the apparent cosmological horizon with a proper definition of the Kodama vector. In this paper, we investigate the dynamic properties of the apparent horizons according to the distribution of cosmic matter. The matter-, radiation-, and lambda-dominated universes are considered as a single component universe. As a multi-component universe, we adopt the $Λ$CDM universe which contains the matter and lambda. We also considered the speeds of apparent horizons and compared them with those of the universe without wormhole. The past light cone and the particle horizon is examined for what happens in the case of model with wormhole. Since the spatial coordinates of the spacetime with the wormhole are limited outside the throat, the past light cone can be operated by removing the smaller-than-wormhole region. The past light cones without wormhole begin start earlier than the past light cones with wormhole in conformal time-proper distance coordinates. The travel-through-wormhole can shows different part from normal one. Therefore, the particle horizon distance determined from the observer's past light cone can not be defined in a unique way. The case of the travel-through-wormhole can be extended into another universe or far distant causally disconnected region.

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The Cosmological Model with a Wormhole and Hawking Temperature near Apparent Horizon

In this paper, a cosmological model with an isotropic form of the Morris-Thorne type wormhole was derived in a similar way to the McVittie solution to the black hole in the expanding universe. By solving Einstein's field equation with plausible matter distribution, we found the exact solution of the wormhole embedded in Friedmann-Lema\^ıtre-Robertson-Walker universe. We also found the apparent cosmological horizons from the redefined metric and analyzed the geometric natures, including causal and dynamic structures. The Hawking temperature for thermal radiation was obtained by the WKB approximation using the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and Hamilton's equation, near the apparent cosmological horizon.

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The Birkhoff theorem and string clouds

We consider spherically symmetric space-times in GR under the unconventional assumptions that the spherical radius $r$ is either a constant or has a null gradient in the $(t,x)$ subspace orthogonal to the symmetry spheres (i.e., $(\partial r)^2 = 0$). It is shown that solutions to the Einstein equations with $r = \rm const$ contain an extra (fourth) spatial or temporal Killing vector and thus satisfy the Birkhoff theorem under an additional physically motivated condition that the lateral pressure is functionally related to the energy density. This leads to solutions that directly generalize the Bertotti-Robinson, Nariai and Plebanski-Hacyan solutions. Under similar conditions, solutions with $(\partial r)^2 = 0$ but $r\ne\rm const$, supported by an anisotropic fluid, contain a null Killing vector, which again indicates a Birkhoff-like behavior of the system. Similar space-times supported by pure radiation (in particular, a massless radiative scalar field) contain a null Killing vector without additional assumptions, which leads to one more extension of the Birkhoff theorem. Exact radial wave solutions have been found (i) with an anisotropic fluid and (ii) with a gas of radially directed cosmic strings (or a "string cloud") combined with pure radiation. Furthermore, it is shown that a perfect fluid with isotropic pressure and a massive or self-interacting scalar field cannot be sources of gravitational fields with a null but nonzero gradient of $r$.

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Black Hole as a Wormhole Factory

On general grounds, one may argue that a black hole stops radiation at the Planck mass, where the radiated energy is comparable to the black hole's mass. And also, it has been argued that there would be a "wormhole-like" structure, known as "space-time foam", due to large fluctuations below the Planck length. In this paper, as an explicit example, we consider an exact classical solution which represents nicely those two properties in a recently proposed quantum gravity model based on different scaling dimensions between space and time coordinates. The solution, called "Black Wormhole", consists of two different states, depending on its mass M and an IR parameter omega: For the black hole state, a non-traversable wormhole occupies the interior region of the black hole around the singularity at the origin, whereas for the wormhole state, the interior wormhole is exposed to an outside observer as the black hole horizon is disappeared from evaporation. The black hole state becomes thermodynamically stable as it approaches to the merge point where the interior wormhole throat and the black hole horizon merges, and the Hawking temperature vanishes at the exact merge point. This solution suggests the "Generalized Cosmic Censorship" by the existence of a wormhole-like structure which protects the naked singularity even after the black hole evaporation. One could understand the would-be wormholes inside the black hole horizon as the results of microscopic wormholes created by "negative" energy quanta which have entered the black hole horizon in Hawking radiation processes: The quantum black hole could be a wormhole factory. It is found that this speculative picture may be consistent with the recent "ER=EPR" proposal for resolving the recent black hole entanglement debates.

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Flare-out condition of Morris-Thorne wormhole and finiteness of pressure

Wormhole is defined as the topological structure with the throat connecting two asymptotically flat spaces. In order to have and maintain the structure of the wormhole, there needs the geometrical flare-out condition, i.e., the minimal size at throat. In the case of Morris-Thorne type wormhole, the condition is given by the huge surface tension compared to the energy density times the square of the light speed. In this paper, we re-considered the flare-out condition for the wormhole with the Einstein equation, checked the finiteness of the pressure, and investigated its physical meaning.

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Hydrodynamics and global embeddings of Taub-NUT spacetime

On Taub-NUT spacetime, we investigate hydrodynamic properties of perfect fluid spiraling inward toward the spacetime along a conical surface. On the equatorial plane of the Taub-NUT spacetime, we derive radial equations of motion with effective potentials and the Euler equation for steady state axisymmetric fluid. Higher dimensional global embeddings are constructed inside and outside the event horizons of the Taub-NUT spacetime. We also study the effective potentials of particles on the Taub-NUT spacetime in terms of gravitational magnetic monopole strength of the source, total energy and angular momentum per unit rest mass of the particle.

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Black hole analogues in braneworld scenario

We construct analogue black hole solutions in the braneworld scenario. The quantum fluctuations of condensate gravitons propagating around a $4+n$-dimensional gravitational potential are found yielding a metric similar to higher dimensional Schwarzschild black hole line-element. Black hole analogue solutions in Randall-Sundrum and Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati brane world models are also constructed. The properties of such black hole analogues are discussed.

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Probing extra dimensions with higher dimensional black hole analogues?

We propose that extra dimensions might be detected with higher dimensional analogues of black holes. The usual 4-dimensional acoustic(sonic)black hole metric is extended to arbitrary dimensions. The absorption cross-section of Hawking radiation on the brane and in the bulk are calculated in the semiclassical approximation.

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Hydrodynamics and global structure of rotating Schwarzschild black holes

Exploiting a rotating Schwarzschild black hole metric, we study hydrodynamic properties of perfect fluid whirling inward toward the black holes along a conical surface. On the equatorial plane of the rotating Schwarzschild black hole, we derive radial equations of motion with effective potentials and the Euler equation for steady state axisymmetric fuid. Moreover, numerical analysis is performed to figure out effective potentials of particles on the rotating Schwarzschild manifolds in terms of angular velocity, total energy and angular momentum per unit rest mass. Higher dimensional global embeddings are also constructed inside and outside the event horizons of the rotating Schwarzschild black holes.

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Decay Rate and Low-Energy Near-Horizon Dynamics of Acoustic Black Holes

We study the low-energy dynamics of an acoustic black hole near the sonic horizon. For the experimental test of black hole evaporation in the laboratory, the decay rate (greybody factor) of the acoustic black hole (sonic hole) can be calculated by the usual low-energy perturbation method. As a consequence, we obtain the decay rate of the sonic horizon from the absorption and the reflection coefficients. Moreover, we show that the thermal emission from the sonic horizon is only proportional to a control parameter which describes the velocity of the fluid.

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Rotating wormhole and scalar perturbation

In this paper, we study the rotational wormhole and scalar perturbation under the spacetime. We found the Schrödinger like equation and consider the asymptotic solutions for the special cases.

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Gravitational perturbation of traversable wormhole

In this paper, we study the perturbation problem of the scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational waves under the traversable Lorentzian wormhole geometry. The unified form of the potential for the Schrödinger type one-dimensional wave equation is found.

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Can wormholes have negative temperatures?

We study (3+1) Morris-Thorne wormhole to investigate its higher dimensional embedding structures and thermodynamic properties. It is shown that the wormhole is embedded in (5+2) global embedding Minkowski space. This embedding enables us to construct the wormhole entropy and Hawking temperature by exploiting Unruh effects. We also propose a possibility of negative temperature originated from exotic matter distribution of the wormhole.

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