Existence of Thin Shell Wormholes using non-linear distributional geometry

TL;DR

This paper investigates the conditions under which thin shell wormholes in $F(R)$-gravity satisfy the null energy condition using a generalized distributional geometry framework, revealing potential microstructures with physical significance.

Contribution

It introduces a rigorous Colombeau algebra framework to analyze thin shell wormholes in $F(R)$-gravity, avoiding junction conditions and exploring NEC satisfaction through microstructure effects.

Findings

NEC can be satisfied by certain quadratic $F$ functions.

The Colombeau algebra provides a consistent way to handle distributional geometries.

Microstructure effects may have physical implications in wormhole models.

Abstract

We study for which polynomials $F$ a thin shell wormhole with a continuous metric (connecting two Schwarzschild spacetimes of the same mass) satisfy the null energy condition (NEC) in $F(R)$-gravity. We avoid junction conditions by using the mathematical framework of the Colombeau algebra which describes a generalized framework of the distributional geometry such that one can define multiplications between distributions generalizing the tensor product of smooth tensors. The aim for physics is to motivate a conjecture about the satisfaction of the NEC for suitable quadratic $F$ while the aim for mathematics is to derive a rigorous framework describing this situation. Here the $F(R)$-gravity should be seen as a toy model, important is that the NEC may be satisfied by some form of "microstructure" which does not arise in the classical setting and may have interesting physical meanings.