Wormholes, Warp Drives and Energy Conditions

1. Introduction
Francisco S. N. Lobo

Part I. Traversable Wormholes

2. Wormhole Basics
Francisco S. N. Lobo

3. Rotating Wormholes
Burkhard Kleihaus, Jutta Kunz

4. Astrophysical Signatures of Thin Accretion Disks in Wormhole Spacetimes
Tiberiu Harko, Zoltán Kovács, Francisco S. N. Lobo

5. Horndeski Wormholes
Sergey V. Sushkov

6. Self-Sustained Traversable Wormholes
Remo Garattini, Francisco S. N. Lobo

7. Trapped Ghosts as Sources for Wormholes and Regular Black Holes. The Stability Problem
Kirill A. Bronnikov

8. Geons in Palatini Theories of Gravity
Gonzalo J. Olmo, Diego Rubiera-Garcia

Part II. Energy Conditions

9. Classical and Semi-classical Energy Conditions
Prado Martín–Moruno, Matt Visser

10. Quantum Energy Inequalities
Christopher J. Fewster

Part III. Warp Drive

11. Warp Drive Basics
Miguel Alcubierre, Francisco S. N. Lobo

12. Probing Faster than Light Travel and Chronology Protection with Superluminal Warp Drives
Carlos Barceló, Stefano Liberati

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