https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201819107012
No stable static spherically symmetric wormholes in Horndeski theory
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Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 60th October Anniversary Prospect 7a, Moscow, 117312, Russia
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Department of Particle Physics and Cosmology, Physics Faculty, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vorobyovy Gory, 1-2, Moscow 119991, Russia
* e-mail: oa.evseev@physics.msu.ru
** e-mail: oi.melichev@physics.msu.ru
Published online: 31 October 2018
We consider the most general theory of a single scalar field with the second order field equations, the Horndeski theory, in four-dimensional space-time. We show that static, spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat, Lorentzian wormholes are unstable in this theory.
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