Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2016) 131: 23
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2016-16023-9

Regular Article

On the stability of charged thin-shell wormholes

¹ Department of Physics, College of Science, Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, KSA
² Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

^* e-mail: aeid06@yahoo.com

Received: 27 June 2015
Accepted: 21 December 2015
Published online: 2 February 2016

Abstract

In the framework of Darmois-Israel formalism, the stability of charged thin shell wormholes is discussed by linearized radial perturbations around static solutions at the wormhole throat. A wormhole is described as a limiting case of a constant density spherical shell, where the structure must be unstable to linearized radial perturbations.