Journal of High Energy Physics (Sep 2020)

Warping wormholes with dust: a metric construction of the Python’s Lunch

  • Ning Bao,
  • Aidan Chatwin-Davies,
  • Grant N. Remmen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2020)102
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020, no. 9
pp. 1 – 27

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Abstract We show how wormholes in three spacetime dimensions can be customizably warped using pressureless matter. In particular, we exhibit a large new class of solutions in (2 + 1)-dimensional general relativity with energy-momentum tensor describing a negative cosmological constant and positive-energy dust. From this class of solutions, we construct wormhole geometries and study their geometric and holographic properties, including Ryu- Takayanagi surfaces, entanglement wedge cross sections, mutual information, and outer entropy. Finally, we construct a Python’s Lunch geometry: a wormhole in asymptotically anti-de Sitter space with a local maximum in size near its middle.

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