A new wormhole solution in de Sitter space

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel static wormhole solution in de Sitter space connecting two points within the same universe, achieved by balancing black holes and a matter shell, with potential implications for cosmology.

Contribution

It presents a new wormhole configuration in de Sitter space that connects two points of the same universe, unlike previous solutions that connect separate universes.

Findings

The wormhole is static and causally connected outside the mouths.

The solution involves black holes at antipodes with a matter shell in between.

Outside the shell, spacetime resembles de Sitter vacuum, except at the shell.

Abstract

We present a new wormhole solution connecting two points of the same universe separated by finite distance. Virtually all the existing solutions connect two disconnected universes, or two points of the same universe that are infinitely far away. We construct our solution by placing two black holes at the antipodes of the closed de Sitter space with a matter shell between them. The gravitational action of the matter shell and cosmological constant counteracts attractive gravity between the black holes and makes the whole configuration static. The whole space outside the wormhole mouths is causally connected, even though the wormhole is not traversable. The stress energy tensor corresponds to de Sitter vacuum everywhere outside of the black holes except at the equator where we match the black hole spacetimes, where a shell with positive energy density appears. We discuss the physical relevance of this solution in various contexts, including the cosmological constant problem.