Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session X11: Exact Solutions and Mathematical Relativity
10:45 AM–12:09 PM,
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Sheraton
Room: Governor's Square 17
Sponsoring
Unit:
DGRAV
Chair: Sam Gralla, University of Arizona
Abstract: X11.00004 : Analysis of the Curvature Invariants for the Natario Warp Metric
11:21 AM–11:33 AM
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Presenter:
Abinash Kar
(Baylor University)
Authors:
Abinash Kar
(Baylor University)
Brandon Mattingly
(Baylor University)
Caleb Elmore
(Baylor University)
Cooper Watson
(Baylor University)
William Julius
(Baylor University)
Matthew Gorban
(Baylor University)
Bahram Shakerin
(Baylor University)
Eric Davis
(Institute for Advanced Studies-Austin, Baylor University)
Gerald Cleaver
(Baylor University)
A process for using curvature invariants is applied as a new means to evaluate the Natario Warp Drive Metric [1]. This approach was formulated by Henry et al. for Black Holes [2] and was further generalized to accommodate the case of Lorentzian Traversable Wormholes by Mattingly et al. [3]. Curvature invariants are independent of coordinate basis, so the process is free of coordinate mapping distortions. Thirteen curvature invariants are calculated and the non-trivial ones are plotted. The constant velocity and accelerating Natario metrics [4] are examined. The dynamics of the warp bubble as it evolves in time is analyzed by plotting the invariants. A spaceship may harbour in the interior of the warp bubble, which the invariant plots show to be flat and free of any fluctuations.
[1] Natario, J. "Warp Drive with Zero Expansion", Classical and Quantum Gravity 19 (2002) 1157-1166
[2] Henry, R. et al. (2016), "A New Way to See Inside Black Holes", arXiv:1512.02762v2 [gr-qc]
[3] Mattingly, B. et al. (2018), "Curvature Invariants for Lorentzian Traversable Wormholes", arXiv:1806.10985v1 [gr-qc]
[4] Loup, F. [Research Report hal-01655423] Residencia de Estudantes Universitas (2017)
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