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Wormholes with a warped extra dimension?

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We investigate the role of a specifically warped extra dimension in constructing examples of higher dimensional spacetimes representing Lorentzian wormholes. The warping chosen is largely inspired by the well-known non-static Witten bubble of nothing, though our spacetimes are static and geometrically different. Vacuum solutions in \(D\ge 5\) dimensions and others (non-asymptotically flat) with ‘perfectly normal’ matter stress energy are interpreted as possible Lorentzian wormholes. Asymptotically flat wormholes in \(D\ge 5\) with ‘exotic matter’ and within this class of spacetimes also appear to exist in all dimensions. A wormhole-black hole correspondence via double Wick rotation is revisited and discussed. Finally, geodesic motion as well as the behaviour of geodesic congruences, in the sub-class of five dimensional, warped, vacuum wormhole spacetimes is also briefly analysed, with the aim of obtaining characteristic properties and specific signatures which may help improve our understanding of these geometries.

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I thank the editors of this special volume for inviting me to contribute an article in this issue dedicated to the memory of Professor Thanu Padmanabhan. Thanks also to Sumanta Chakraborty, Sandipan Sengupta and Amitabh Virmani for their valuable comments and suggestions on the manuscript. It is indeed an honour for me to present this article as a modest tribute to the memory of Professor Padmanabhan.

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Kar, S. Wormholes with a warped extra dimension?. Gen Relativ Gravit 54, 66 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-022-02951-2

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