Wormholes in Two Dimensional Dilaton Gravity

Abstract

It is shown that the general solution of classical equations of motion in two dimensional dilaton gravity proposed by Callan, Giddings, Harvey and Strominger (CGHS) includes a Lorentzian wormhole solution in addition to a black hole solution. We also show that matter perturbation of the wormhole by a shock wave leads to the formation of a black hole where the curvature singularity is cloaked by the global event horizon. It is also argued that the classical wormhole would be stable against quantum corrections.