Newtonian limits of warp drive spacetimes

Author: Natário José  

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

ISSN: 0001-7701

Source: General Relativity and Gravitation, Vol.38, Iss.3, 2006-03, pp. : 475-484

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Abstract

We find a class of warp drive spacetimes possessing Newtonian limits, which we then determine. The same method is used to compute Newtonian limits of the Schwarzschild solution and spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological models.