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April 29, 2024Classical and Quantum Gravity11 citationsOpen Access

Constant velocity physical warp drive solution

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JFJared FuchsCHChristopher HelmerichABAlexey Bobrick

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Warp drives are exotic solutions of general relativity that offer novel means of transportation. In this study, we present a solution for a constant-velocity subluminal warp drive that satisfies all of the energy conditions. The solution involves combining a stable matter shell with a shift vector distribution that closely matches well-known warp drive solutions such as the Alcubierre metric. We generate the spacetime metric numerically, evaluate the energy conditions, and confirm that the shift vector distribution cannot be reduced to a coordinate transformation. This study demonstrates that classic warp drive spacetimes can be made to satisfy the energy conditions by adding a regular matter shell with a positive ADM mass.

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Fuchs et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e6d055b6db64358764e0d6https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ad26aa
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