Zero mass limit of Kerr spacetime is a wormhole

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作者
Gibbons, Gary W. [1 ,2 ]
Volkov, Mikhail S. [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Cambridge, DAMTP, Wilberforce Rd, Cambridge CB3 0WA, England
[2] Univ Tours, CNRS, UMR 7350, Lab Math & Phys Theor, Parc Grandmt, F-37200 Tours, France
[3] Kazan Fed Univ, Inst Phys, Dept Gen Relat & Gravitat, Kremlevskaya St 18, Kazan 420008, Russia
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METRICS; FIELD;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.96.024053
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We show that, contrary to what is usually claimed in the literature, the zero mass limit of Ken spacetime is not flat Minkowski space but a spacetime whose geometry is only locally flat. This limiting spacetime, as the KeIT spacetime itself, contains two asymptotic regions and hence cannot he topologically trivial. It also contains a curvature singularity, because the power-law singularity of the Weyl tensor vanishes in the limit hut there remains a distributional contribution of the Ricci tensor. This spacetime can he interpreted as a wormhole sourced by a negative tension ring. We also extend the discussion to similarly interpret the zero mass limit of the Kerr-(anti-)de Sitter spacetime.
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