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We obtain a large class of Lorentzian wormhole spacetimes in scalar-tensor gravity, for which the matter stress energy does satisfy the weak energy condition. Our constructions have zero Ricci scalar and an everywhere finite, non-zero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-12 Rajibul Shaikh , Sayan Kar

In this article, we study the possibility of sustaining a static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole geometries admitting conformal motion in Einstein gravity, which presents a more systematic approach to search a relation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-01 Piyali Bhar , Farook Rahaman , Tuhina Manna , Ayan Banerjee

In this work, we investigate static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole solutions within the framework of the extended symmetric teleparallel gravity, specifically the $\mathcal{F}(Q,\mathcal{L}_{m},\mathcal{T})$ gravity theory,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Rounak Manna , Krishna Pada Das , Ujjal Debnath

Wormholes have been always an interesting object in gravity theories. In this paper we make a little review of the principal properties of these objects and the exotic matter they need to exist. Then, we obtain two specific solutions in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-07-17 Alexis Larranaga

The present work is an attempt to find possible traversable wormhole solutions in static spherically symmetric space-time supported by anisotropic matter field. Part of the work could be considered as a generalization of the work in Phys.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-11 Shibaji Halder , Subhra Bhattacharya , Subenoy Chakraborty

This paper introduces a new type of thin-shell wormhole constructed from a special class of compact stellar objects rather than black holes. The construction and concomitant investigation of the stability to linearized radial perturbations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-15 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

Wormholes are non-trivial topological structures that arise as exact solutions to Einstein's field equations, theoretically connecting distinct regions of spacetime via a throat-like geometry. While static traversable wormholes necessarily…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Mahdi Kord Zangeneh , Francisco S. N. Lobo

In continuation of a preceding work on introducing asymmetric thin-shell wormholes as an emerging class of traversable wormholes within the context, this time cylindrically symmetric spacetimes are exploited to construct such wormholes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-06 S. Danial Forghani , S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

In this work we present a class of geometries which describes wormholes in a Randall-Sundrum brane model, focusing on de Sitter backgrounds. Maximal extensions of the solutions are constructed and their causal structures are discussed. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-06 C. Molina , J. C. S. Neves

Using ideas from the brane world cosmological perturbation theory, we make linear stability analysis of dynamic thin shell wormholes constructed by cutting-and-pasting two building-block spacetime at arbitrary joining shell radiuses. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-12 Ai-chen Li , Wu-long Xu , Ding-fang Zeng

Using the cut-and-paste procedure, we construct static and dynamic plane symmetric wormholes by surgically grafting together two spacetimes of plane symmetric vacuum solutions with a negative cosmological constant. These plane symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 José P. S. Lemos , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We study the stability and the scattering properties of a spacetime with a topological defect along a spherical bubble. This bubble connects two flat spacetimes which are asymptotically Minkowski, so that the resulting universe may be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-09 J. P. M. Pitelli , R. A. Mosna

We investigate spherically symmetric and static traversable wormholes supported by exotic matter, focusing on solutions sourced by physically motivated dark matter energy density profiles. Considering the Thomas-Fermi-type distribution, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Remo Garattini , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Kirill Zatrimaylov

We construct a static axisymmetric wormhole from the gravitational field of two Schwarzschild particles which are kept in equilibrium by strings (ropes) extending to infinity. The wormhole is obtained by matching two three-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 F. Schein , P. C. Aichelburg , W. Israel

In this work, we investigate the existence of wormholes within the framework of Loop Quantum Cosmology, using isotropic dark matter as the source. We analyze three distinct density profiles and solve the modified gravity field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-11 Marcos V. de S. Silva , G. Alencar , R. N. Costa Filho , R. M. P. Neves , Celio R. Muniz

We construct generic spherically symmetric thin shells by using the cut-and-paste procedure. We take considerable effort to make the analysis as general and unified as practicable; investigating both the internal physics of the transition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-06 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Prado Martin-Moruno , Nadiezhda Montelongo Garcia , Matt Visser

In this article, spherically symmetric thin-shell wormholes supported by a generalized Chaplygin gas are constructed and their stability under perturbations preserving the symmetry is studied. Wormholes with charge and with a cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-28 Ernesto F. Eiroa

We investigate a new thin-shell wormhole constructed by surgically grafting two regular charged black holes arising from the action using nonlinear electrodynamics coupled to general relativity. The stress-energy components within the shell…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-28 F. Rahaman , K A Rahman , Sk. A Rakib , Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

We introduce two classes of spherically symmetric spacetimes having a thin shell of matter, in non-quadratic F(R) theories of gravity with non-constant scalar curvature R. In the first, the thin shell joins an inner region with an outer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-07 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre

This paper generalizes two of the author's earlier wormhole solutions that are characterized by an extra spatial dimension. This paper adds the assumption that the components of the line element are functions not only of the radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig