Stability of thin shell and wormhole configurations: Schwarzschild, Schwarzschild-dS, Schwarzschild-AdS, and FLRW spacetimes
Phys. Rev. D 112, 124069 – Published 23 December, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/gpjg-vgwl
Abstract
The stability of thin shell wormholes and black holes to linearized spherically symmetric perturbations about a static equilibrium is analyzed. Thin shell formalism is explored and junctions formed from combinations of Schwarzschild, Schwarzschild-de Sitter, and Schwarzschild–anti-de Sitter, as well as Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetimes are considered. The regions of stability for these different combinations are thoroughly described and plotted as a function of mass ratios of the Schwarzschild masses and radii of the wormhole throats. A taxonomy of the qualitative features of the various configurations and parameter spaces is developed, illustrating the stability regions when present. The considered wormholes are all found to be unstable in the causal region.
