Non--Abelian Wormholes Threaded by Yang--Mills--Higgs Field in the BPS Limit

TL;DR

This paper constructs and analyzes non-Abelian wormholes supported by a phantom field in Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs theory, revealing novel properties like double throats and energy condition satisfaction at high gravity.

Contribution

It introduces new non-Abelian wormhole solutions in the BPS limit, showing their properties and behavior under varying gravitational coupling.

Findings

Wormholes possess Yang-Mills-Higgs hair with gravity

Mass and scalar charge increase with gravitational strength

Double throat configurations occur at high gravity

Abstract

In the Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) limit of Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs theory, we construct numerically a non-Abelian wormhole supported by a phantom field. The probe limit is the Yang-Mills-Higgs field in the background of Ellis wormhole when the gravity is switched off. The wormhole solutions possess the Yang-Mills-Higgs hair in the presence of gravity; Thus a branch of hairy wormhole solutions emerge from the Ellis wormhole when the gravitational coupling constant increases. We find that the mass of wormholes and scalar charge of phantom field increase monotonically when the gravitational coupling constant increases. The wormhole spacetime possesses double throat configuration when the gravitational strength exceeds a critical value. Surprisingly, the wormholes satisfy the null energy condition in the large gravitational strength. We also briefly discuss the redshift factor.