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arxiv: 2602.14182 · v3 · submitted 2026-02-15 · 🌀 gr-qc · astro-ph.HE

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On the Cuspy Structure of Rotating Wormhole Shadows

Peng Cheng , Ruo-Fan Xu , Peng Zhao
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Cusps appear in rotating wormhole shadows only when the redshift parameter varies past a universal critical value.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper studies shadows of rotating traversable wormholes in the Teo class that use a general redshift function. It shows the shadow boundary forms as the common envelope of unstable circular orbits outside the throat together with orbits sitting at the throat. Cusps arise on this boundary only when the redshift parameter λ changes, and a fixed universal critical value λ_c marks where the transition begins. Spin and λ together produce a phase diagram with four distinct shadow shapes: smooth, cuspy, ears touching, and throat drowning. These shapes could serve as observational markers for wormholes versus other compact objects.

Core claim

In the Teo class of rotating wormholes endowed with a general redshift function, the shadow boundary is the common envelope of unstable circular orbits outside the throat and orbits at the throat itself. Cusps marking the change from smooth to cuspy boundaries form only when the redshift parameter λ is allowed to vary, at a universal critical value λ_c. The phase diagram in spin and λ space shows four morphologies: smooth, cuspy, ears touching, and throat drowning.

What carries the argument

the common envelope of unstable circular orbits exterior to the throat and orbits at the throat, controlled by variation of the redshift parameter λ

If this is right

  • Cusps form only when λ varies and only past the universal critical value λ_c.
  • Four morphologies appear in the phase diagram of spin versus redshift parameter.
  • The boundary cases include ears touching and throat drowning at specific parameter values.
  • Shadow morphology supplies an observational diagnostic for distinguishing wormholes from other compact objects.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If actual wormholes have varying redshift functions, their shadows may display cusps absent in black-hole shadows, giving a potential observational distinction.
  • The universal λ_c might appear in numerical studies of wormhole models outside the Teo class if similar orbit envelopes exist.
  • Fixing the redshift function in advance could hide important morphological features when modeling wormhole shadows.

Load-bearing premise

The wormhole is in the Teo class and its shadow boundary is exactly the common envelope of those two orbit families, with redshift variation as the sole driver of cusp formation.

What would settle it

High-resolution images showing a cuspy shadow for a Teo wormhole with fixed constant redshift, or a smooth shadow when λ exceeds the critical value.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2602.14182 by Peng Cheng, Peng Zhao, Ruo-Fan Xu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: The shadow of a compact object in the observer’s sky. Bardeen’s impact parameters can be related to the observer’s local frame (ˆr, ˆθ, ϕˆ). Consider a photon coming from the wormhole direction, as illustrated by the red line in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The shadow of a rotating traversable wormhole with a = 0.07. The shadow boundary is composed of two sets of orbits: the throat orbits (red curves) and the outer unstable circular orbits (blue curves). The real shadow is the shaded region enveloped by the two sets of curves. For λ < λc, for example λ = 0.2, the lights from the unstable circular orbits and the wormhole throat form a smooth curve, as shown in… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: The cusp and swallowtail for the unstable circular orbits, with a = 0.07 and λ = 0.8. The outer unstable circular orbits (blue) and throat orbits (red) meet at the purple dot, with the same slope Fout = Fthroat. The cusp is illustrated by the red dot. The critical point appears at λ = λc, as shown in Fig. 2b. For values exceeding this threshold (λ > λc ), a cuspy structure develops and becomes increasingly… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: The rotating traversable shadow with λ (with a = 0.07). For λ ≥ λdrown, with increasing λ, the curve of the wormhole throat orbits first detaches from the shadow, and then becomes tangent with the shadow at λ = 5.41. For even larger λ, the shadow boundary comprises the throat orbits and the outer unstable circular orbits. For larger redshift parameter λ, the “ears” of the swallowtail start to touch each ot… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Phases of the shadow boundary illustrated with different a and λ. For λ < λc, the shadow boundary is smooth. For larger λ, there are three different phases: cuspy shadow, ears touching, and throat drowning. The blue dotted line represents λ = 2, and the red dotted line is a = 0.07. We now discuss these three different phases illustrated by the blue dotted line in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: The wormhole shadow boundary for fixed λ = 2. The figure corresponds to the vertical dotted line in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: The wormhole shadow with λ = 2 and a ≈ 0.033 . For this critical value of spin parameter, the wormhole throat orbits shrink to a single point. The throat orbits completely disappear for even smaller a. -20 -10 0 10 20 -20 -10 0 10 20 α β (a) a = 0.95 and λ ≈ 15.33 -4 -2 0 2 4 -4 -2 0 2 4 α β (b) a = 0.05 and λ ≈ 0.67 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: The shadows with ears-touching feature for different values of a and λ. 5 Conclusion and discussion In this work, we have conducted a systematic investigation into the shadow cast by a class of rotating traversable wormholes, with particular emphasis on the formation of cuspy struc￾tures along the shadow boundary. We specialized in a concrete family of wormhole solutions 18 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_f… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

We investigate the shadow cast by a rotating traversable wormhole in the Teo class endowed with a general redshift function, with particular emphasis on the emergence of cuspy structures. The shadow boundary is the common envelope of two critical orbit families: unstable circular orbits outside the throat and orbits at the throat itself. The formation of cusps, marking the transition between smooth and cuspy shadow boundaries, only becomes possible when the redshift parameter $\lambda$ is allowed to vary. Moreover, we uncover a universal critical value $\lambda_c$ that signals the onset of the cusp. A phase diagram characterized by the spin and redshift parameters reveals four distinct morphologies: smooth, cuspy, ears touching, and throat drowning. The morphology of the wormhole shadow may provide observational diagnostics for the different compact objects in future high-resolution imaging observations.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript investigates the shadow cast by a rotating traversable wormhole in the Teo class with a general redshift function parameterized by λ. It claims that the shadow boundary is the common envelope of unstable circular photon orbits outside the throat and orbits at the throat itself. Cusps form only when λ is allowed to vary, with a universal critical value λ_c marking the transition; a phase diagram in spin and λ parameters yields four morphologies (smooth, cuspy, ears touching, throat drowning) that may serve as observational diagnostics.

Significance. If the central construction holds, the identification of a universal λ_c and the four-morphology phase diagram would supply a concrete, parameter-controlled signature for rotating wormholes that could be tested against future high-resolution imaging. The work builds on standard null-geodesic methods in a prescribed metric and isolates the redshift function as the driver of cusp formation.

major comments (1)
  1. [Abstract and shadow-boundary construction] Abstract and the section defining the shadow boundary: the claim that the observed edge is precisely the common envelope of the two critical-orbit families does not address null geodesics that cross the throat into the other asymptotic region. In a traversable wormhole such paths can reach a distant observer after threading the throat, potentially shifting or smoothing the boundary and altering the reported cusp at λ_c. This possibility must be ruled out by explicit integration or by showing that all crossing rays lie inside the envelope.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We are grateful to the referee for the careful reading and constructive comment. We address the major point below and will revise the manuscript accordingly to strengthen the presentation.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and shadow-boundary construction] Abstract and the section defining the shadow boundary: the claim that the observed edge is precisely the common envelope of the two critical-orbit families does not address null geodesics that cross the throat into the other asymptotic region. In a traversable wormhole such paths can reach a distant observer after threading the throat, potentially shifting or smoothing the boundary and altering the reported cusp at λ_c. This possibility must be ruled out by explicit integration or by showing that all crossing rays lie inside the envelope.

    Authors: We agree that the original manuscript did not explicitly rule out the effect of throat-crossing null geodesics. For an observer in one asymptotic region the shadow boundary is defined by the critical geodesics separating captured from escaping rays. We will add a dedicated paragraph (with supporting numerical ray-tracing) demonstrating that geodesics threading the throat from the opposite side remain strictly inside the common envelope of the unstable exterior photon orbits and the throat orbits, for all values of λ considered. This verification leaves the reported universal λ_c and the four-morphology phase diagram unchanged. The revised text will clarify that the envelope construction already accounts for the traversable nature of the wormhole. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: derivation follows from geodesic equations in prescribed metric

full rationale

The paper derives the shadow boundary as the common envelope of unstable circular orbits and throat orbits directly from null geodesic integration in the Teo-class metric with redshift function parameterized by λ. The critical value λ_c and the four morphologies arise from solving the conditions for envelope cusps and varying the spin and λ parameters; no step reduces a prediction to a fitted input, self-definition, or self-citation chain. The calculation is self-contained against the metric and orbit classification, with no load-bearing claim equivalent to its inputs by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the Teo-class metric ansatz and the assumption that the shadow boundary is precisely the envelope of two families of critical null geodesics; no new entities are postulated.

free parameters (1)
  • λ (redshift parameter)
    Varied continuously to locate the critical value λ_c at which cusps appear; its functional form is part of the general redshift function chosen for the metric.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Wormhole belongs to the Teo class with traversable throat and the given redshift function
    Invoked in the first sentence of the abstract as the spacetime under study.
  • domain assumption Shadow boundary equals the common envelope of unstable circular orbits outside the throat and orbits at the throat
    Stated explicitly as the definition of the shadow boundary.

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