Kaluza-Klein wormholes with the compactified fifth dimension

TL;DR

This paper explores five-dimensional Kaluza-Klein wormholes with a compactified fifth dimension, featuring magnetic charge and scalar fields, resulting in a four-dimensional wormhole with a radial magnetic monopole and a stabilized extra dimension.

Contribution

It presents new solutions for Kaluza-Klein wormholes with a compactified fifth dimension and magnetic charge, highlighting the topological structure and asymptotic properties.

Findings

The fifth dimension is compactified at large distances.

The wormhole exhibits a radial magnetic monopole field.

Asymptotically, the fifth dimension's size can be set near the Planck scale.

Abstract

We consider wormhole solutions in five-dimensional Kaluza-Klein gravity in the presence of a massless ghost four-dimensional scalar field. The system possesses two types of topological nontriviality connected with the presence of the scalar field and of a magnetic charge. Mathematically, the presence of the charge appears in the fact that the $S^3$ part of a spacetime metric is the Hopf bundle $S^3 \rightarrow S^2$ with fibre $S^1$. We show that the fifth dimension spanned on the sphere $S^1$ is compactified in the sense that asymptotically, at large distances from the throat, the size of $S^1$ is equal to some constant, the value of which can be chosen to lie, say, in the Planck region. Then, from the four-dimensional point of view, such a wormhole contains a radial magnetic (monopole) field, and an asymptotic four-dimensional observer sees a wormhole with the compactified fifth dimension.