Spacetime triple wormhole

Abstract

We describe a multi-neck spacetime wormhole with a simple metric tensor and a simple injective map without coordinate patching. An intra-universe, non-thin-shell, non-spherically-symmetric 3-neck spacetime wormhole is geometrically constructed by spherically inverting a 3-torus. We place the resulting Dupin hypercyclide in a synchronous reference frame. The three necks are arranged around a central point and satisfy topological and geometric spacetime wormhole definitions. Asserting this metric tensor as an exact solution of Einstein's field equations in global coordinates generates diagonal Ricci and stress-energy tensors, and a Riemann curvature tensor with only six nonzero entries. The local inertial frame at every point of the coordinate system is comoving with the triple wormhole. This non-vacuum solution answers affirmatively the question posed by Einstein and Rosen (1935) of whether or not multi-neck solutions exist. The wormhole solution contains negative energy density as is expected to hold the necks open; however, geodesic paths through each neck exist which encounter only positive energy density. The spatial manifold is a trivariate Dupin hypercyclide. The spherically inverted equal-radii 3-torus is unbounded, asymptotically flat and admits a global isothermal coordinate system that further simplifies the curvature tensors.