Electrostatics in a wormhole geometry

Abstract

We determine in closed form the electrostatic potential generated by a point charge at rest in a simple model of static spherically symmetric wormhole. From this, we deduce the electrostatic self-energy of this point charge.

latex, 5 pages, a slight correction

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