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Quadrupole perturbations of slowly spinning Ellis-Bronnikov wormholes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-09-29 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the axial and polar perturbations of slowly rotating Ellis-Bronnikov wormholes in General Relativity, applying a perturbative double expansion. In particular, we derive the equations for l=2l=2, Mz=2M_z=2 perturbations of these objects which are parametrized by an asymmetry parameter. The equations constitute an astrophysically interesting sector of the perturbations that contribute dominantly to the gravitational wave radiation. Moreover, calculation of these modes may exhibit potential instabilities in the quadrupole sector.

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@article{arxiv.2509.22118,
  title  = {Quadrupole perturbations of slowly spinning Ellis-Bronnikov wormholes},
  author = {Bahareh Azad and Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo and Fech Scen Khoo and Jutta Kunz and Francisco Navarro-Lérida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.22118},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

35 pages, 2 figures, Invited contribution to the Special Issue "Experimental and Observational Constraints on Wormhole Models"