Can wormholes have vanishing Love numbers?

arXiv:2605.03025 · gr-qc, astro-ph.GA, hep-th, math-ph, math.MP · Submitted 2026-05-04 · Read on arXiv

gr-qc, astro-ph.GA, hep-th, math-ph, math.MP

Submitted: 2026-05-04

Updated: 2026-07-20

Comments: 12 pages, Numerically verified

Journal ref: Phys. Rev. D 114, 064050 Published 10 September 2026

DOI: 10.1103/z8hm-fvx3

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: Wormholes are fascinating alternatives to black hole geometries.

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Wormholes are fascinating alternatives to black hole geometries. In this paper, we have studied a special case of wormhole solution in the context of R=0 spacetime. Our approximate analytical calculations show that under a strictly static axial gravitational perturbation of this spacetime, the magnetic-type tidal Love number (for =2) vanishes if we keep the solution of the master equation up to linear order in the regularisation parameter of the geometry. Moreover, imposing physically viable boundary conditions on the master variable we have corroborated our result with the numerical solutions. We have further extended our analysis towards the case of Damour-Solodukhin wormhole, which also yields similar conclusion.

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