Traversable wormholes with arbitrarily small energy condition violations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 20, 2003, Pages

  Visser, Matt ^a   Kar, Sayan ^b   Dadhich, Naresh ^c  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; TENSORS;

AVERAGED NULL ENERGY CONDITION; DIAGONAL ENERGY-MOMENTUM TENSOR; EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS; QUANTUM EFFECTS; QUANTUM PHYSICS; TRAVERSABLE WORMHOLES;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0037789539     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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