Numerical optimization of shift profile for positive energy warp shells
We treat the shift profile of a static, spherically symmetric positive-energy warp shell as the variable of a numerical optimization problem on a fixed background (mass, radii, density and radial pressure held fixed). The objective is the critical amplitude: the first shift amplitude, on the branch connected to zero, at which any of the null, weak, strong or dominant energy conditions fails at a tested point. The search runs over a 14-parameter family (a density envelope times an exponential cubic B-spline modulation, with free exponent and switch radius), evaluated with the closed-form all-orders Eulerian stress tensor and a Hawking-Ellis eigenvalue test.
Authors
- Francis Procaccia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8880-275X)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Figshare
- Published
- 2026-10-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.34866444
- Primary Topic
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Type
- preprint