Energy conditions, traversable wormholes and dust shells

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2023-2038

  Lobo, Francisco S N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Energy conditions; Exotic matter; Thin shell formalism; Traversable wormholes

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344444793     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-005-0177-x     Document Type: Review

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