Looking for empty topological wormhole spacetimes in F ( R )-modified gravity

2013

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DOI 10.1088/0264-9381/30/23/235013
Data confidence 70 medium
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Abstract

Much attention has been recently devoted to modified theories of gravity, the simplest models of which overcome General Relativity simply by replacing R with F ( R ) in the Einstein–Hilbert action. Unfortunately, such models typically lack most of the beautiful solutions discovered in Einstein's gravity. Nonetheless, in F ( R ) gravity, it has been possible to get at least few black holes, but still we do not know any empty wormhole-like spacetime solution. This paper aims to explain why it is so hard to get such solutions (given that they exist!). Few solutions are derived in the simplest cases, while only an implicit form has been obtained in the non-trivial case.