Can wormholes have vanishing Love numbers?
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2026-05-06 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
Wormholes are fascinating alternatives to black hole geometries. In this paper, we have studied a special case of wormhole solution in the context of spacetime. Our approximate analytical calculations show that under a strictly static axial gravitational perturbation of this spacetime, the magnetic-type tidal Love number (for ) vanishes if we keep the solution of the master equation up to linear order in the regularisation parameter of the geometry.
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@article{arxiv.2605.03025,
title = {Can wormholes have vanishing Love numbers?},
author = {Shauvik Biswas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.03025},
year = {2026}
}
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