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More on wormholes supported by small amounts of exotic matter

Peter K. F. Kuhfittig*

  • Department of Mathematics, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202-3109, USA

  • *Electronic address: kuhfitti@msoe.edu

Phys. Rev. D 73, 084014 – Published 14 April, 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.73.084014

Abstract

Recent papers by Fewster and Roman have emphasized that wormholes supported by arbitrarily small amounts of exotic matter will have to be incredibly fine-tuned if they are to be traversable. This paper discusses a wormhole model that strikes a balance between two conflicting requirements, reducing the amount of exotic matter and fine-tuning the metric coefficients, ultimately resulting in an engineering challenge: one requirement can only be met at the expense of the other. The wormhole model is macroscopic and satisfies various traversability criteria.

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