About apparent superluminal drives in generic gravity theories

arXiv2004.12523MaRDI QIDQ6339461FDOQ6339461

Authors: J. Morales, O. Santillán 

Publication date: 26 April 2020

Abstract: As is well known, there exists warp drives in GR, such as the Alcubierre bubbles, which achieve an apparent faster than light travel cite{alcubierre}. A result due to Gao and Wald cite{gaowald} suggests that such a travel is unlikely for GR with matter satisfying both the Null Energy and the Null Generic Conditions. There exists a generalization of this statement due to Galloway, that ensures that the Gao-Wald result is true regardless the underlying gravity model, unless there exists at least one inextendible null geodesic with achronal image in the space time (a null line). The proof of this proposition is based on techniques of causal theories, and has never been released. In the present work an independent proof of this result is presented by use of the Raychaudhuri equation, and avoiding several technical complications described along the text. Some consequences of these affirmations are discussed at last section, in particular their potential use in problems of causality.

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