Electrostatics in a wormhole geometry

Bernard Linet (1)

1 LMPT - Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Physique Théorique

We determine in closed form the electrostatic potential generated by a point charge at rest in a simple model of static spherically symmetric wormhole. From this, we deduce the electrostatic self-force of this point charge.

Mots clés: wormhole; electrostatics

Domaines: Relativité Générale et Cosmologie Quantique [gr-qc]

Bernard Linet. Electrostatics in a wormhole geometry. 2008. ⟨hal-00203389⟩