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Linearized warp drive and the energy conditions

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arxiv gr-qc/0412065 v1 pith:TO476WIY submitted 2004-12-14 gr-qc

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''Warp drive'' spacetimes are useful as ''gedanken-experiments'' and as a theoretician's probe of the foundations of general relativity. Applying linearized gravity to the weak-field warp drive, i.e., for non-relativistic warp-bubble velocities, we find that the occurrence of energy condition violations in this class of spacetimes is generic to the form of the geometry under consideration and is not simply a side-effect of the ''superluminal'' properties. Using the linearized construction it is now possible to compare the warp field energy with the mass-energy of the spaceship, and applying the ''volume integral quantifier'', extremely stringent conditions on the warp drive spacetime are found.

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  1. The Warp Drive: Superluminal Travel within General Relativity

    gr-qc 2025-08 reject novelty 3.0 of 10

    Coupled fluid sources to the Alcubierre warp drive metric yield Einstein equation solutions, some satisfying energy conditions, but none forming a localized warp bubble.

  2. The Kiselev black hole is neither perfect fluid, nor is it quintessence

    gr-qc 2019-08 accept novelty 3.0 of 10

    The Kiselev black hole's stress-energy is anisotropic, so it is neither a perfect fluid nor standard quintessence, despite a large literature saying otherwise.

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