Radial perturbations of charged wormholes
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2026-03-16 v2
Abstract
Ellis-Bronnikov wormholes suffer from an unstable radial mode. Here we investigate the evolution of the unstable mode(s) for charged wormholes. We show that the instability remains in the presence of charge, but exhibits a very fast decrease to zero. We hereby make a full study of the spectrum of the unstable radial modes. For so-called supercritical wormholes, two purely imaginary unstable modes merge and continue with degenerate imaginary parts and opposite real parts. By analogy, we conjecture an analogous behavior for rotating chargeless wormholes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2510.11406,
title = {Radial perturbations of charged wormholes},
author = {Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo and Luis Manuel González-Romero and Fech Scen Khoo and Jutta Kunz and Pablo Navarro Moreno},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.11406},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures; v2: added references, results unchanged, matches published version