Theoretical construction of stable traversable wormholes

• Authors: Peter Kuhfittig
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

It is shown in this paper that it is possible, at least in principle, to construct a traversable wormhole that is stable to linearized radial perturbations by specifying relatively simple conditions on the shape and redshift functions.

Keywords

EN

traversable wormholes; stability

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 364-368

Dates

published

1 - 6 - 2010

online

24 - 4 - 2010

Contributors

author

Peter Kuhfittig

• Department of Mathematics, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, 53202-3109, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-009-0099-4