Some general aspects of thin-shell wormholes with cylindrical symmetry

In this article we study a general class of non-rotating thin-shell wormholes with cylindrical symmetry. We consider two physically sound definitions of the flare-out condition and we show that the less restrictive one allows for the construction of wormholes with positive energy density at the throat. We also analyze the mechanical stability of these objects under perturbations preserving the symmetry, proving that previous results are particular cases of a general property. We present examples of wormholes corresponding to Einstein-Maxwell spacetimes.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures; v4: corrected versio

Charged shells in a (2+1)-dimensional spacetime

We study circular shells in a (2+1)-dimensional background within the framework of Einstein-Born-Infeld theory. For shells around black holes we analyze the mechanical stability under perturbations preserving the symmetry. Shells around vacuum are also discussed. We find a large range in the values of the parameters compatible with stable configurations.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures; v2: improved version, new references adde

Asymptotically anti-de Sitter cylindrical thin-shell wormholes

In this article we investigate cylindrical thin-shell wormholes which are asymptotically anti-de Sitter. We analyze their stability under perturbations preserving the symmetry by using two different methods. We compare the results with those corresponding to the wormholes constructed from the Levi-Civita spacetime. We find that the configurations always require the presence of exotic matter at the throat, and, in the case of the linearized stability analysis, they can be stable for suitable values of the parametersComment: 11 pages, 3 figures; v2: improved versio

Cosmological simulations of screened modified gravity out of the static approximation: effects on matter distribution

In the context of scalar tensor theories for gravity, there is a universally adopted hypothesis when running N-body simulations that time derivatives in the equation of motion for the scalar field are negligible. In this work we propose to test this assumption for one specific scalar-tensor model with a gravity screening mechanism: the symmetron. To this end, we implemented the necessary modifications to include the non-static terms in the N-body code Ramses. We present test cases and results from cosmological simulations. Our main finding when comparing static vs. non-static simulations is that the global power spectrum is only slightly modified when taking into account the inclusion of non-static terms. On the contrary, we find that the calculation of the local power spectrum gives different measurements. Such results imply one must be careful when assuming the quasi-static approximation when investigating the environmental effects of modified gravity and screening mechanisms in structure formation of halos and voids distributions.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures, matches version accepted for publication in PR

Shape of Clusters as a Probe of Screening Mechanisms in Modified Gravity

Scalar fields are crucial components in high energy physics and extensions of General Relativity. The fact they are not observed in the solar system may be due to a mechanism which screens their presence in high dense regions. We show how observations of the ellipticity of galaxy clusters can discriminate between models with and without scalar fields and even between different screening mechanisms. Using nowadays X-ray observations we put novel constraints on the different models.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, matches version accepted for publication in PR