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We investigate static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole solutions in the framework of $f(Q)$ gravity by considering a power-law model of the form $f(Q)=\gamma(-Q)^m$. By adopting an anisotropic matter distribution and imposing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Jaydeep Goswami , Rupam Jyoti Borah , Umananda Dev Goswami

In this paper, we analyze static traversable wormholes via Noether symmetry technique in modified Gauss-Bonnet $f(\mathcal{G})$ theory of gravity (where $\mathcal{G}$ represents Gauss-Bonnet term). We assume isotropic matter configuration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-03 M. Sharif , Iqra Nawazish , Shahid Hussain

In this paper, we explore wormhole solutions in a higher-derivative theory of gravity where the action depends not only on the Ricci scalar \(R\), but also on its d'Alembertian, \(\Box R\). Such \(f(R,\Box R)\) models are motivated by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 M Daniel Ranjan , Soumya Chakrabarti , Sanjit Das

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 investigate traversable wormhole geometries in the framework of $F(T)$ gravity supplemented by a weak de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley (dRGT) massive term. Using the static and spherically symmetric Morris-Thorne metric, we derive the field and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Alexandre Landry , Yassine Sekhmani , Sunil K Maurya , Akram Ali , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We present a systematic study of exact solutions for traversable wormhole geometries in a static and hyperbolic symmetric spacetime. In the conventional form of studying wormhole geometry, traversability requires the presence of exotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-25 Roberto Avalos , Ernesto Contreras , Daniel Brito , Ernesto Fuenmayor

This Letter aims to advance unexplored properties of a new class of Closed Timelike Curves recently discovered in scalar-tensor gravity, reported in Universe 9, 467 (2023) and Eur.$\,$Phys.$\,$J.$\,$C 83, 626 (2023). Therein, it was shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-26 Hoang Ky Nguyen , Francisco S. N. Lobo

Traversable wormholes, studied by Morris and Thorne \cite{Morris1} in general relativity, are investigated in this research paper in $f(R,T)$ gravity by introducing a new form of non-linear $f(R,T)$ function. By using this novel function,…

General Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Nisha Godani , Gauranga C. Samanta

A basic constraint to be satisfied by Brans class I solution for being a traversible wormhole is derived. It is argued that the solution could be a wormhole analogue of the Horowitz-Ross naked black hole. It is further demonstrated that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-25 Amrita Bhattacharya , Ilnur Nigmatzyanov , Ramil Izmailov , Kamal K. Nandi

The stability of thin shell wormholes and black holes to linearized spherically symmetric perturbations about a static equilibrium is analyzed. Thin shell formalism is explored and junctions formed from combinations of Schwarzschild,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Travis Seth Rippentrop , Avijit Bera , Mustapha Ishak

In this work we show the existence of traversable wormhole and time-machine solutions in a modified theory of gravity where matter and curvature are nonminimally coupled. Those solutions present a nontrivial redshift function and exist even…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-24 Orfeu Bertolami , Ricardo Zambujal Ferreira

In this article, new wormhole solutions in the framework of General Relativity are presented. Taking advantage of gravitational decoupling by means of minimal geometric deformation approach and, the so-called noncommutative geometry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-02 Francisco Tello-Ortiz , B. Mishra , A. Alvarez , Ksh. Newton Singh

In this paper, we analyze the Schwarzschild-like wormhole in the Asymptotically Safe Gravity(ASG) scenario. The ASG corrections are implemented via renormalization group methods, which, as consequence, provides a new tensor $X_{\mu\nu}$ as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-12 M. Nilton , G. Alencar

In the present paper we discuss properties of a model of a ring wormhole, recently proposed by Gibbons and Volkov. Such a wormhole connects two flat spacetimes which are glued through discs of the radius $a$ bounded by the string with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Valeri P. Frolov , Pavel Krtous , Andrei Zelnikov

The theoretical construction of a traversable wormhole from a Schwarzschild black hole is described, using analytic solutions in Einstein gravity. The matter model is pure phantom radiation (pure radiation with negative energy density) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Sean A. Hayward , Hiroko Koyama

The self-interaction for a static point charge in the space-time of a thin-shell wormhole constructed connecting two identical Schwarzschild geometries is calculated in a series expansion. The electrostatic self-force is evaluated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 E. Rubín de Celis , O. P. Santillán , C. Simeone

A possible candidate for the present accelerated expansion of the Universe is ''phantom energy'', which possesses an equation of state of the form $\omega\equiv p/\rho<-1$, consequently violating the null energy condition. As this is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Francisco S. N. Lobo

We review recent work on wormhole geometries in the context of modified theories of gravity, in particular, in f(R) gravity and with a nonminimal curvature-matter coupling, and in the recently proposed hybrid metric-Palatini theory. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-18 Francisco S. N. Lobo

The theoretical construction of a traversable wormhole proposed by Morris and Thorne maintains complete control over the geometry by assigning both the shape and redshift functions, thereby leaving open the determination of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-27 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

We have found a simple exact solution of spherically-symmetrical Einstein equations describing a wormhole for an inhomogeneous distribution of the phantom energy. The equation of state is linear but highly anisotropic: while the radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 O. B. Zaslavskii