Quantifying energy condition violations in traversable wormholes
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SAYAN KAR, NARESH DADHICH and MATT VISSER Department of Physics and Centre for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721 302, India Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, India School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
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