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arxiv: 2605.02555 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-04 · 🌀 gr-qc

Exact solutions for slowly rotating wormholes in the presence of an anisotropic fluid

Davide Batic , Denys Dutykh , Mark Essa Sukaiti This is my paper

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keywords slowly rotating wormholesanisotropic fluidtraversable wormholesframe draggingMorris-Thorne metricTeo metricnull energy conditionergoregions
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Slowly rotating wormholes supported by anisotropic fluid admit closed analytic expressions for frame dragging and second-order backreaction.

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

The paper establishes that a slow-rotation expansion of a Teo-type axisymmetric metric, sourced by an anisotropic fluid, closes the Einstein equations together with the conservation laws. This closure produces exact formulas for the leading frame-dragging term and the quadratic rotational correction to the geometry. A reader would care because the construction supplies concrete corrections to known static wormhole solutions while tracking how null-energy-condition violations redistribute and how the throat deforms under rotation.

Core claim

Starting from the Teo-type stationary axisymmetric extension of the Morris-Thorne metric, a slow-rotation expansion is performed after fixing a gauge that preserves the geometric meaning of the radial coordinate. Two complementary prescriptions treat the throat as fixed or free. Within this framework the Einstein equations and conservation laws form a closed system, yielding analytic expressions for the leading frame-dragging effect and the second-order rotational backreaction. The construction is applied to the spatial-Schwarzschild and Morris-Thorne wormholes, producing induced corrections to the stress-energy tensor, redistribution of null-energy-condition violations, quadrupolar shape of

What carries the argument

The slow-rotation expansion of the Teo-type metric with anisotropic-fluid source, which reduces the full Einstein system to a solvable closed set for the rotational perturbations.

If this is right

  • Induced corrections to the stress-energy tensor appear at second order in the rotation parameter.
  • Null-energy-condition violations redistribute spatially around the throat.
  • Quadrupolar deformations of the wormhole geometry arise from the rotational backreaction.
  • Curvature scalars receive explicit corrections and ergoregions may appear for sufficient rotation.
  • The same analytic procedure applies to both fixed-throat and free-throat prescriptions.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • These closed-form expressions could provide accurate initial data for numerical evolutions of rotating wormhole spacetimes.
  • The framework could be extended by adding electromagnetic or scalar fields to the anisotropic fluid without losing analytic control at leading order.
  • Frame-dragging signatures near the throat might be compared against hypothetical astrophysical observations of compact objects.
  • Linear stability analysis of the derived slowly rotating solutions could test whether the anisotropic fluid prevents collapse under rotation.

Load-bearing premise

The slow-rotation expansion remains valid and the chosen gauge preserves the geometric meaning of the radial coordinate throughout the throat region.

What would settle it

A full numerical solution of the Einstein equations at a small but finite rotation parameter, compared directly against the analytic series expansion at the same parameter value, would confirm or refute the leading-order expressions.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.02555 by Davide Batic, Denys Dutykh, Mark Essa Sukaiti.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1: Behaviour of the NEC for Model 1, Case 1 of the Schwarzs view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2: Behaviour of the radial NEC for Model 1, Case 3 of the Sc view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3: Behaviour of the meridional NEC for Model 1, Case 3 of t view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4: Behaviour of the azimuthal NEC for Model 1, Case 3 of th view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5: Behaviour of the NEC for Case 1 of the Morris-Thorne wo view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6: Behaviour of the radial NEC for Case 3 of the Morris-Th view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7: Behaviour of the meridional NEC for Case 3 of the Morri view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: FIG. 8: Behaviour of the azimuthal NEC for Case 3 of the Morris view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: FIG. 9: Cross section of the wormhole throat for Case 3 of the S view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: FIG. 10: Cross section of the wormhole throat for Case 3 of the view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: FIG. 11: Cross section of the wormhole throat for Case 3 of the view at source ↗
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We construct slowly rotating traversable wormholes in the presence of an anisotropic fluid. Starting from a Teo-type stationary, axisymmetric extension of the Morris-Thorne metric, we perform a slow-rotation expansion, fix a gauge that preserves the geometric meaning of the radial coordinate, and introduce two complementary prescriptions for treating the throat (fixed and free). Within this framework, the Einstein equations and conservation laws form a closed system, from which we obtain analytic expressions for the leading frame dragging and for the second-order rotational backreaction. We apply the construction to the spatial-Schwarzschild and Morris-Thorne wormholes, derive the induced corrections to the stress-energy tensor, analyse the redistribution of null energy condition (NEC) violations, and characterise quadrupolar deformations, curvature diagnostics, and possible ergoregions.

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Referee Report

1 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper constructs slowly rotating traversable wormholes supported by anisotropic fluids. It starts from a Teo-type stationary axisymmetric extension of the Morris-Thorne metric, performs a slow-rotation expansion, fixes a gauge preserving the geometric meaning of the radial coordinate, and considers fixed and free throat prescriptions. The Einstein equations plus conservation laws are claimed to close, yielding analytic expressions for the leading frame-dragging function and O(Ω²) metric backreaction. These are applied to spatial-Schwarzschild and Morris-Thorne wormholes to obtain stress-energy corrections, analyze NEC violation redistribution, quadrupolar deformations, curvature diagnostics, and possible ergoregions.

Significance. If the gauge choice and system closure hold, the work supplies rare analytic expressions for rotating wormhole metrics and their matter sources. The explicit treatment of frame dragging, second-order corrections, and NEC redistribution provides concrete starting points for stability analyses and potential observational modeling. The analytic (rather than numerical) character of the leading results is a clear strength.

major comments (1)
  1. [gauge fixing and throat prescriptions] The central claim that the Einstein equations and conservation laws form a closed system under the slow-rotation ansatz rests on the gauge condition that keeps the radial coordinate geometrically meaningful (areal radius minimum remains at the throat with no first-order shift) through O(Ω²). Explicit verification is needed that the O(Ω²) corrections to the metric functions do not displace the throat location or generate extra radial derivatives in the conservation equations; otherwise an additional constraint or equation of state would be required and the claimed analytic expressions would not follow automatically. This check should be shown in the expansion around the throat (see the gauge-fixing and throat-prescription paragraphs).
minor comments (2)
  1. [abstract] The abstract and introduction would benefit from a brief statement of the precise orders kept in the expansion (e.g., Ω to first order for frame dragging, Ω² for backreaction) to make the scope of the analytic results immediately clear.
  2. [applications to specific wormholes] Notation for the anisotropic fluid stress-energy components could be tabulated once for both the static background and the induced corrections to improve readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful reading of the manuscript and for the constructive major comment. We address the point directly below, providing the requested verification through a revision that adds an explicit expansion around the throat.

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  1. Referee: The central claim that the Einstein equations and conservation laws form a closed system under the slow-rotation ansatz rests on the gauge condition that keeps the radial coordinate geometrically meaningful (areal radius minimum remains at the throat with no first-order shift) through O(Ω²). Explicit verification is needed that the O(Ω²) corrections to the metric functions do not displace the throat location or generate extra radial derivatives in the conservation equations; otherwise an additional constraint or equation of state would be required and the claimed analytic expressions would not follow automatically. This check should be shown in the expansion around the throat (see the gauge-fixing and throat-prescription paragraphs).

    Authors: We agree that an explicit check around the throat clarifies the closure of the system. The gauge is fixed by requiring that the areal radius function has vanishing first derivative at the throat to all orders in the expansion, with the throat location held fixed at r = r_0. The first-order frame-dragging term is constructed to be odd under the appropriate parity and does not shift the minimum. For the O(Ω²) corrections, the revised manuscript now includes a direct Taylor expansion of the metric functions (including the backreaction terms) about r = r_0. This expansion confirms that the first derivative of the areal radius remains zero at the throat, that no additional independent radial derivatives enter the conservation equations, and that the Einstein equations together with the conservation laws therefore close without extra constraints or an equation of state. The analytic expressions for the frame-dragging function and the second-order metric corrections follow directly. The added paragraph appears in the gauge-fixing subsection immediately following the throat-prescription discussion. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in the slow-rotation wormhole construction

full rationale

The paper begins with a prescribed Teo-type stationary axisymmetric extension of the Morris-Thorne metric as input, performs a slow-rotation expansion to second order, and selects a gauge condition to preserve the geometric meaning of the radial coordinate at the throat. The Einstein equations together with the conservation laws are then applied to this ansatz, yielding analytic expressions for the leading frame-dragging term and the O(Ω²) backreaction corrections to the metric and stress-energy tensor. This is a standard perturbative GR construction in which the metric form and gauge choice are explicit inputs while the field equations determine the outputs; no self-definitional loops, fitted parameters presented as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear. The system closure follows directly from the Einstein equations under the chosen gauge and ansatz, with no reduction of the claimed results to their own inputs by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review supplies no explicit list of fitted parameters or new entities; the work rests on the standard Einstein equations in GR and the assumption that an anisotropic fluid can be prescribed to support the wormhole.

axioms (2)
  • standard math Einstein field equations govern the space-time
    Invoked to obtain the closed system for the metric functions and stress-energy.
  • domain assumption Slow-rotation expansion is valid near the throat
    Used to truncate at second order in angular velocity.

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    Relation between the paper passage and the cited Recognition theorem.

    We construct slowly rotating traversable wormholes in the presence of an anisotropic fluid. Starting from a Teo-type stationary, axisymmetric extension of the Morris–Thorne metric, we perform a slow-rotation expansion ...

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    Relation between the paper passage and the cited Recognition theorem.

    Expansion in powers of J keeping ω to O(J³) and (N,B,K) to O(J²); imposes asymptotic Lense-Thirring tail ω₁ → 2/r³ and tunes κ=5 to match.

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    Relation between the paper passage and the cited Recognition theorem.

    Sec IV.A: Schwarzschild wormhole frame-dragging coefficients 4288/2145, 252/65, 18432/5005, ... — rational coefficients from Legendre/integration constants, no φ or golden-ratio appearance.

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    Relation between the paper passage and the cited Recognition theorem.

    We treat Ω as a constitutive choice for the fluid ... we regard Ω = Ω(r,χ) as part of a phenomenological constitutive relation for the effective anisotropic fluid.

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