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arXiv:1807.04726hep-th

Traversable wormholes in four dimensions

Juan Maldacena, Alexey Milekhin, Fedor Popov

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Abstract

We present a wormhole solution in four dimensions. It is a solution of an Einstein Maxwell theory plus charged massless fermions. The fermions give rise to a negative Casimir-like energy, which makes the wormhole possible. It is a long wormhole that does not lead to causality violations in the ambient space. It can be viewed as a pair of entangled near extremal black holes with an interaction term generated by the exchange of fermion fields. The solution can be embedded in the Standard Model by making its overall size small compared to the electroweak scale.

arXiv comments
28+10 pages, 8 figures. v2: Further restriction on the regime of validity in section 5.5. References added v3: minor typos
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hep-thHigh Energy Physics, Theory gr-qcGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology hep-phHigh Energy Physics, Phenomenology

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