Multi-mouth traversable wormholes

• Main Authors: Roberto Emparan, Brianna Grado-White, Donald Marolf, Marija Tomašević
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2021-05-01
• Series: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Subjects: AdS-CFT Correspondence; Black Holes
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2021)032

Abstract We describe the construction of traversable wormholes with multiple mouths in four spacetime dimensions and discuss associated quantum entanglement. Our wormholes may be traversed between any pair of mouths. In particular, in the three-mouth case they have fundamental group F 2 (the free group on two generators). By contrast, connecting three regions A, B, C in pairs (AB, BC, and AC) using three separate wormholes would give fundamental group F 3. Our solutions are asymptotically flat up to the presence of possible magnetic fluxes or cosmic strings that extend to infinity. The construction begins with a two-mouth traversable wormhole supported by backreaction from quantum fields. Inserting a sufficiently small black hole into its throat preserves traversability between the original two mouths. This black hole is taken to be the mouth of another wormhole connecting the original throat to a new distant region of spacetime. Making the new wormhole traversable in a manner similar to the original two-mouth wormhole provides the desired causal connections. From a dual field theory point of view, when AdS asymptotics are added to our construction, multiparty entanglement may play an important role in the traversability of the resulting wormhole.