A Traversable Wormhole from the Kerr Black Hole

Abstract

The approach of Gao, Jafferis, and Wall to perturbatively construct traversable wormholes has seen success in a number of black hole backgrounds, particularly BTZ and $AdS_2$, whereas historically most wormhole solutions have been either found to violate the achronal ANEC, violate a classical no-go theorem, or exist only in astrophysically irrelevant spacetimes. In this work, we show that a double-trace deformation to the near-horizon, near-extremal region of Kerr yields a traversable wormhole. We also comment on the potential for a fully nonperturbative approach to a four-dimensional rotating traversable wormhole in asymptotically flat space.