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Using the effective metric formalism for photons in a nonlinear electromagnetic theory, we show that a certain field configuration in Born-Infeld electromagnetism in flat spacetime can be interpreted as an ultrastatic spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Baldovin , M. Novello , S. E. Perez Bergliaffa , J. M. Salim

We present new, asymptotically flat, static, spherically symmetric and traversable wormhole solutions in General Relativity which are supported by a family of ghost scalar fields with quartic potential. This family consists of a particular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-31 Belen Carvente , Víctor Jaramillo , Juan Carlos Degollado , Darío Núñez , Olivier Sarbach

We construct explicit examples of globally regular static, spherically symmetric solutions in general relativity with scalar and electromagnetic fields describing traversable wormholes with flat and AdS asymptotics and regular black holes,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-07 K. A. Bronnikov , P. A. Korolyov

The paper deals with the static spherically symmetric wormhole solutions in $f(R)$-modified gravity theory with anisotropic matter field and for some particular choices for the shape functions. The present work may be considered as an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Bikram Ghosh , Saugata Mitra , Subenoy Chakraborty

Following the recent theory of $f(Q)$ gravity, we continue to investigate the possible existence of wormhole geometries, where $Q$ is the non-metricity scalar. Recently, the non-metricity scalar and the corresponding field equations have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-08 Ayan Banerjee , Anirudh Pradhan , Takol Tangphati , Farook Rahaman

We prove some theorems characterizing the global properties of static, spherically symmetric configurations of a self-gravitating real scalar field in general relativity (GR) in various dimensions, with an arbitrary potential $V$, not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 K. A. Bronnikov , G. N. Shikin

We consider static spherically symmetric wormhole configurations in a gravitational theory of a scalar field with a potential $V(\phi)$ and nonminimal derivative coupling to the curvature describing by the term $(\epsilon g_{\mu\nu} +…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Sergey Sushkov , Roman Korolev

We perform analytical and numerical study of static spherically symmetric solutions in the context of Brans-Dicke-like cosmological model by Elizalde et al. with an exponential potential. In this model the phantom regime arises without the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-05 D. A. Tretyakova , B. N. Latosh , S. O. Alexeyev

A general class of solutions is obtained which describe a spherically symmetric wormhole system. The presence of arbitrary functions allows one to describe infinitely many wormhole systems of this type. The source of the stress-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. DeBenedictis , A. Das

We present a new class of solutions for static spherically symmetric wormhole spacetimes in conformal gravity and outline a detailed method for their construction. As an explicit example, we construct a class of traversable and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-09 Manuel Hohmann , Christian Pfeifer , Martti Raidal , Hardi Veermäe

We seek wormholes among rotating cylindrically symmetric configurations in general relativity. Exact wormhole solutions are presented with such sources of gravity as a massless scalar field, a cosmological constant, and a scalar field with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 K. A. Bronnikov , V. G. Krechet

We consider static, spherically symmetric, electrically or/and magnetically charged configurations of a minimally coupled scalar field with an arbitrary potential $V(\phi)$ in general relativity. Using the inverse problem method, we obtain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. A. Bronnikov , M. S. Chernakova

In this paper, we investigate the role of gravito-inertial effects on the Casimir energy of a massless scalar field confined between two parallel plates orbiting a static and zero tidal Schwarzschild-like wormhole, at zero temperature.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-02 A. C. L. Santos , C. R. Muniz , L. T. Oliveira

We study the geometry of a wormhole spacetime filled with anisotropic matter in the context of general relativity. In the course of the study, new static and spherically symmetric solutions, analytic and numerical ones, are found. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Youngone Lee

We construct exact nonstatic nonhomogeneous spherically symmetric solutions in the theory of gravity with a scalar field possessing the exponential potential. The solution of particular interest corresponds to the scalar field with negative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergey V. Sushkov , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

It is shown that the existence of static, cylindrically symmetric wormholes does not require violation of the weak or null energy conditions near the throat, and cylindrically symmetric wormhole geometries can appear with less exotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-30 Kirill A. Bronnikov , José P. S. Lemos

Static, spherically symmetric configurations of gravity with nonminimally coupled scalar fields are considered in D-dimensional space-times in the framework of generalized scalar-tensor theories. We seek special cases when the system has no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kirill A. Bronnikov

Wormhole solutions to the equations of general relativity have some spectacular local and global properties. As these unusual features are not explicitly forbidden by known physics, wormholes are considered in various astrophysical and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Daniel R. Terno

The inclusion of the Weyl squared term in the gravitational action is one of the most simple, yet non trivial modifications to General Relativity at high energies. Nevertheless the study of the spherically-symmetric vacuum solutions of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-29 Alfio Bonanno , Samuele Silveravalle , Alessandro Zuccotti

Some novel regular spacetimes are considered that show a non-stationary wormhole structure. A Simpson-Visser-like procedure is applied to reconstruct these regular spacetimes, free of time-like and space-like singularities. Such a procedure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-13 G. Alencar , R. Dárlla , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez