Complementarity in Wormhole Chromodynamics

TL;DR

This paper explores the quantum properties of wormhole charges and fluxes, resolving puzzles in wormhole electrodynamics and chromodynamics by analyzing non-commuting observables and their measurement implications.

Contribution

It introduces a novel analysis of wormhole charge and flux as non-commuting observables, challenging recent proposals and providing insights into wormhole quantum statistics.

Findings

Wormhole charge and flux are non-commuting observables.

Measurement of wormhole properties can be achieved via Aharonov-Bohm effects.

Wormhole mouths may obey conventional quantum statistics.

Abstract

The electric charge of a wormhole mouth and the magnetic flux ``linked'' by the wormhole are non-commuting observables, and so cannot be simultaneously diagonalized. We use this observation to resolve some puzzles in wormhole electrodynamics and chromodynamics. Specifically, we analyze the color electric field that results when a colored object traverses a wormhole, and we discuss the measurement of the wormhole charge and flux using Aharonov-Bohm interference effects. We suggest that wormhole mouths may obey conventional quantum statistics, contrary to a recent proposal by Strominger.