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Reduced Total Energy Requirements for a Modified Alcubierre Warp Drive Spacetime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

It can be shown that negative energy requirements within the Alcubierre spacetime can be greatly reduced when one introduces a lapse function into the Einstein tensor. Thereby reducing the negative energy requirements of the warp drive spacetime arbitrarily as a function of A(ct,r_s). With this function new quantum inequality restrictions are investigated in a general form. Finally a pseudo method for controlling a warp bubble at a velocity greater than that of light is presented.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0107097,
  title  = {Reduced Total Energy Requirements for a Modified Alcubierre Warp Drive Spacetime},
  author = {F. Loup and D. Waite and E. Halerewicz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0107097},
  year   = {2007}
}

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14 pages, LaTeX2e, 1 eps figure