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The two Schwarzschild-de Sitter spaces connected by a wormhole following the method of Visser is considered in order to find the effect of the cosmological constant on the Minkowskian wormhole. The dynamics of the wormhole is also compared with those of the Euclidean wormhole.
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Kim, SW., Kim, S.K., Yang, J. (1991). Schwarzschild-de Sitter Type Wormhole and Cosmological Constant. In: Sato, K., Audouze, J. (eds) Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Evolution of Early Universe. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 169. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3410-1_43
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