Wormholes, Warp Drives and Energy Conditions

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lobo, Francisco S. N. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics, 189
• Subjects: Physics.; Astrophysics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

Top researchers in the field of gravitation present the state-of-the-art topics outlined in this book, ranging from the stability of rotating wormholes solutions supported by ghost scalar fields, modified gravity applied to wormholes, the study of novel semi-classical and nonlinear energy conditions...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1: Traversable wormholes
• 1. Introduction (Francisco Lobo)
• 2. Wormhole basics (Francisco Lobo)
• 3. Rotating wormholes (Jutta Kunz)
• 4. Astrophysical signatures of thin accretion disks in wormhole spacetimes (Tiberiu Harko, Zoltan Kovacs, Francisco Lobo)
• 5. Wormholes in modified theories of gravity (Sergey Sushkov)
• 6. Trapped ghosts as sources for wormholes (Kirill Bronnikov)
• 7. Geons in modified gravity (Gonzalo Olmo, Diego Rubeira-Garcia)
• Part 2: Energy conditions
• 1. Quantum inequalities (Christopher Fewster)
• 2. Semi-classical and nonlinear energy conditions (Prado Martín-Moruno, Matt Visser)
• Part 3: Warp drive
• 1. Warp drive basics (Miguel Alcubierre)
• 2. Probing faster than light travel and Chronology Protection with superluminal warp drives (Carlos Barcelo, Stefano Liberati)
• Part 4: Closed time-like curves
• 1. Time machine basics (Francisco Lobo)
• Part 5: Conclusion (Francisco Lobo).