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In the homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann-Robertson-Walker minisuperspace model, it is known that there are no Euclidean wormhole solutions in the pure gravity system. Here it is demonstrated explicitly that in Taub cosmology, which is one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Hongsu Kim

Some of the simplest wormhole solutions involve massless scalar fields that take imaginary values. Massless fields can be interpreted as coupling constants in asymptotically flat or asymptotically AdS gravity theories. We argue that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Juan Maldacena , Alexander Maloney , Brian McPeak

In this paper new exact solutions in eight dimensional Lovelock theory will be presented. These solutions are vacuum static wormhole, black hole and generalized Bertotti-Robinson space-times with nontrivial torsion. All the solutions have a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Fabrizio Canfora , Alex Giacomini

Wormhole configurations in Einstein's general theory of relativity (GR) require exotic matter sources violating the weak energy condition (WEC). Rastall's theory is a generalization of GR in its matter source considering a nonconserved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-19 Yaghoub Heydarzade , Maryam Ranjbar

A lower bound on the size of a Lorentzian wormhole can be obtained by semiclassically introducing the Planck cut-off on the magnitude of tidal forces (Horowitz-Ross constraint). Also, an upper bound is provided by the quantum field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Kamal Kanti Nandi , Yuan-Zhong Zhang , K. B. Vijaya Kumar

We construct a specific example of a class of traversable wormholes in Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theory in four spacetime dimensions, without needing any form of exotic matter. Restricting to a model with two massive fermions in a singlet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-15 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Christian Knoll , Eugen Radu

The solutions of traversable wormholes and their geometries are investigated in higher-curvature gravity with boundary terms for each case under the presence of anisotropic, isotropic and barotropic fluids in detail. For each case, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-03 M. Ilyas , Kazuharu Bamba

Wormhole solutions in classical General Relativity are unstable and hence non traversable. Morris and Thorne discovered a traversable wormhole solution that required the energy momentum tensor of matter sources to violate various energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-21 Anshuman Baruah , Atri Deshamukhya

While wormholes are just as good a prediction of Einstein's theory as black holes, they are subject to severe restrictions from quantum field theory. To allow for the possibility of interstellar travel, a macroscopic wormhole would need to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-25 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

We study a solution of Einstein's equations that describes a straight cosmic string with a variable angular deficit, starting with a $2 \pi$ deficit at the core. We show that the coordinate singularity associated to this defect can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Rodrigo M Aros , Nelson Zamorano

It is shown in the first part of this paper that a combined model comprising ordinary and quintessential matter can support a traversable wormhole in Einstein-Maxwell gravity. Since the solution allows zero tidal forces, the wormhole is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-04 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

We construct traversable wormholes by starting with simple four-dimensional classical solutions respecting the null energy condition and containing a pair of oppositely charged black holes connected by a non-traversable wormhole. We then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-03 Zicao Fu , Brianna Grado-White , Donald Marolf

Local solutions are a vivid and long-living topic in gravitational physics. We consider exact static pseudo-spherically symmetric solutions of semi-classical Einstein's equations in presence of the trace anomaly contribution. We investigate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-14 Marco Calzá , Alessandro Casalino , Lorenzo Sebastiani

The first junction conditions of spherically symmetric bubbles are solved for some cases, and whereby analytic models to the Einstein field equations are constructed. The effects of bubbles on the spacetime structure are studied and it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Anzhong Wang , Patricio S. Letelier

We study wormhole as the solution of the Wheeler-deWitt (WdW ) equation satisfying Hawking-Page wormhole boundary conditions in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmology. The quantum wormholes are formulated with arbitrary factor ordering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Farook Rahaman , Bikramarka S. Choudhury , Anikul Islam

Wormholes and black holes have traditionally been treated a quite separate objects with relatively little overlap. The possibility of a connection arises in that wormholes, if they exist, might have profound influence on black holes, their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-27 Matt Visser , David Hochberg

In the present work, we develop and examine a series of exact solutions to Einstein's 5-dimensional field equations in the vacuum, which depend on two constant parameters, $p$ and $q$, which generalize the solutions of L\"u and Mei [8]…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 I. A. Sarmiento-Alvarado , Leonel Bixano , Tonatiuh Matos

A classification of Brans-Dicke theories of gravitation, based on the behaviour of the dimensionless gravitational coupling constant, is given. It is noted that the discussion takes place in the current literature, about which of the two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Israel Quiros

A family of spherically symmetric, static and self--dual Lorentzian wormholes is obtained in n--dimensional Einstein gravity. This class of solutions includes the n--dimensional versions of the Schwarzschild black hole and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Cataldo , P. Salgado , P. Minning

This paper investigates static wormhole solutions through Noether symmetry approach in the context of energy-momentum squared gravity. This newly developed proposal resolves the singularity of big-bang and yields feasible cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-12 M. Sharif , M. Zeeshan Gul