We examine the possibility of static wormhole solutions in the vacuum Brans-Dicke theory both in the original ͑Jordan͒ frame and in the conformally rescaled ͑Einstein͒ frame. It turns out that, in the former frame, wormholes exist only in a very narrow interval of the coupling parameter, viz., Ϫ3/2ϽϽϪ4/3. It is shown that these wormholes are not traversable in practice. In the latter frame, wormhole solutions do not exist at all unless energy conditions are violated by hand.
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