C-0022 Under review LOW certainty
The three 2026 warp papers are one correlated source: same single author, arXiv preprints without journal DOIs, zero citations each on OpenAlex (reproduced live with a positive control: S-0001 shows 45). Within that caveat, S-0003 certifies the Van Den Broeck walls as Hawking-Ellis Type IV — no rest frame — ABOVE a Type-I to Type-IV transition at v_s ~ 0.36 (the value lives in a source macro; the canonical text loses it), with Alcubierre and Natario walls Type-IV dominated at all speeds; and S-0005's 'no exotic matter' drive is, in its own words, causal, subluminal, and steeply but positively costly.
Standing preprint only · interpretation · TRL 1 Assumes the three 2026 papers S-0003/S-0004/S-0005 as posted on arXiv; citation counts as returned by OpenAlex on 2026-08-07, URLs in the workflow record Stops applying any weight these findings would carry after independent peer review, which none has yet
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E-0026 · S-0005 — Steering a warp drive without exotic matter · direct
…adial mode), yet growth sim luminosity is bounded over any finite burn by the fuel budget. The drive is causal, subluminal, and a reaction drive needing no exotic matter in the thin-shell idealization : steering a warp drive is a problem of energy budget, not negative energy. Introduction A…
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E-0027 · S-0005 — Steering a warp drive without exotic matter · direct
…as boosts do not add as vectors), so a turn costs strictly more than the collinear figure. The cost is steep, but positive and finite: no negative energy and no quantum-inequality violation appear at any point. The barrier is the size of the budget, the sense in which warp propulsion is here an engin…
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E-0028 · S-0003 — Observer-robust energy condition verification for warp drive spacetimes · direct
…dest by one to two orders of magnitude yet still violating. Across the four matched drives the invariant NEC margin is negative wherever the wall is Type I, and the wall is Type IV elsewhere, an explicit, all-observer, all-velocity realization of the Santiago-Schuster-Visser theorem ; the one certified positive case, the Fuchs shell (Table), evades the theorem's hypothese…
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E-0031 · S-0003 — Observer-robust energy condition verification for warp drive spacetimes · direct
…chotomy (Section): the Rodal irrotational geometry is globally Type I at all speeds, while the Alcubierre and Nat\'ario walls are Type-IV dominated at all speeds, and Van den Broeck above its Type-I to Type-IV transition at v_sapproxvdbTransitionVS, with a stress-energy that has no rest frame. The Type-IV labe…
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