Traversable Casimir Wormholes with Gravitational Memory
Abstract
We investigate a class of traversable wormhole geometries supported by an effective Casimir source corrected by gravitational memory. The construction is motivated by the fact that a time-dependent gravitational background can leave a permanent positive shift in the vacuum polarization of a quantum field confined to a Casimir cavity. By promoting the plate separation to an effective radial scale in the Morris-Thorne spacetime, we obtain a density profile composed of the usual negative Casimir contribution, proportional to r−4, and a positive memory-induced correction, proportional to r−7. The corresponding shape function is derived directly from the Einstein equations and satisfies the throat condition by construction. We determine the redshift function from a constant barotropic equation of state together with the requirement of regularity at the throat, which fixes the barotropic parameter in terms of the Casimir and memory coefficients. The flare-out condition defines the admissible range of the memory parameter and separates a Casimir-dominated sector from a phantom-like sector, with the transition point associated with a singular limit of the constant-barotropic description. We analyze the curvature scalar, the embedding structure, the energy conditions, and the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equilibrium of the anisotropic matter source. The radial null energy condition is necessarily violated at the throat, while the tangential sector depends sensitively on the redshift gradient. We also examine the shadow radius as a phenomenological diagnostic and show that admissible solutions can overlap the EHT range for M87*. The results indicate that gravitational memory can deform Casimir-supported wormholes by softening the ordinary Casimir contribution, modifying the near-throat geometry, and reshaping the internal stress balance required to sustain traversability.
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BibTeX
@misc{reboucas2026traversable,
title = {{Traversable Casimir Wormholes with Gravitational Memory}},
author = {Jonathan A. Rebouças and Francisco Bento Lustosa and Celio R. Muniz},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = jun,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2606.15552},
eprint = {2606.15552},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15552},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Traversable Casimir Wormholes with Gravitational Memory
AU - Jonathan A. Rebouças
AU - Francisco Bento Lustosa
AU - Celio R. Muniz
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/06/23
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2606.15552
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15552
AB - We investigate a class of traversable wormhole geometries supported by an effective Casimir source corrected by gravitational memory. The construction is motivated by the fact that a time-dependent gravitational background can leave a permanent positive shift in the vacuum polarization of a quantum field confined to a Casimir cavity. By promoting the plate separation to an effective radial scale in the Morris-Thorne spacetime, we obtain a density profile composed of the usual negative Casimir contribution, proportional to r^−4, and a positive memory-induced correction, proportional to r^−7. The corresponding shape function is derived directly from the Einstein equations and satisfies the throat condition by construction. We determine the redshift function from a constant barotropic equation of state together with the requirement of regularity at the throat, which fixes the barotropic parameter in terms of the Casimir and memory coefficients. The flare-out condition defines the admissible range of the memory parameter and separates a Casimir-dominated sector from a phantom-like sector, with the transition point associated with a singular limit of the constant-barotropic description. We analyze the curvature scalar, the embedding structure, the energy conditions, and the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equilibrium of the anisotropic matter source. The radial null energy condition is necessarily violated at the throat, while the tangential sector depends sensitively on the redshift gradient. We also examine the shadow radius as a phenomenological diagnostic and show that admissible solutions can overlap the EHT range for M87*. The results indicate that gravitational memory can deform Casimir-supported wormholes by softening the ordinary Casimir contribution, modifying the near-throat geometry, and reshaping the internal stress balance required to sustain traversability.
ER -