14–16 Apr 2025
Europe/Lisbon timezone

Electromagnetic wormholes

15 Apr 2025, 16:45
15m
Auditorium C.1

Auditorium C.1

Department of Physics (University of Coimbra)

Speaker

Ms MARÍA PÉREZ GARROTE (USAL)

Description

I will discuss how the effective geometry seen by photons propagating on a non-trivial electromagnetic background within Born-Infeld theory corresponds to an asymmetric wormhole. I will explain some interesting properties of the generated geometry such as the behaviour of null geodesics. Interestingly, the wormhole effective geometry arises for the background fields created by a charged particle, a monopole and a dyon. The identical effective geometry for these three objects can be understood in terms of the duality invariance of Born-Infeld geometry.

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