Exact geometric optics in a Morris-Thorne wormhole spacetime
Abstract
The simplicity of the Morris-Thorne wormhole spacetime permits us to determine null and timelike geodesics by means of elliptic integral functions and Jacobian elliptic functions. This analytic solution makes it possible to find a geodesic which connects two distant events. An exact gravitational lensing, an illumination calculation, and even an interactive visualization become possible.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- February 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.044043
- Bibcode:
- 2008PhRvD..77d4043M
- Keywords:
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- 04.20.-q;
- 04.20.Jb;
- Classical general relativity;
- Exact solutions