Charged wormholes can be long-lived

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, suggesting that wormholes that approach a near-extremal metric could be long-lived. 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 wormholes.