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We provide a 2-fluid immiscible matter source that supplies fuel to construct wormhole spacetime. The exact wormhole solutions are found in the model having, besides real matter or ordinary matter, some quintessence matter along with charge…

General Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 Safiqul Islam , Md Arif Shaikh , Tapas Kumar Das , Farook Rahaman , Monsur Rahaman

Spherically symmetric thin-shell wormholes are constructed within the framework of Brans-Dicke gravity. It is shown that, for appropriate values of the Brans-Dicke constant, these wormholes can be supported by matter satisfying the energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-26 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Martin G. Richarte , Claudio Simeone

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

It is proved that all thin-shell wormholes built from two identical regions of vacuum static, spherically symmetric space-times have a negative shell surface energy density in any scalar-tensor theory of gravity with a non-ghost massless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-22 Kirill A. Bronnikov , Alexei A. Starobinsky

This study aims to investigate the viability of a viable logarithmic f(R) gravity for inflation in giving wormhole solutions. We consider a static and spherically symmetric spacetime and two different shape functions. We found that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-27 Yusmantoro , Rian Julianto

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

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

Two critical issues in the study of Morris-Thorne wormholes concerns the stability of such structures, as well as their compatibility with quantum field theory. This note discusses an important subset characterized by zero tidal forces. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-24 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

In this article, the stability of a general class of spherically symmetric thin-shell wormholes is studied under perturbations preserving the symmetry. For this purpose, the equation of state at the throat is linearized around the static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Ernesto F. Eiroa

In this paper, we construct generic, spherically symmetric thin-shell wormholes and check their stabilities using the unified dark sector, including dark energy and dark matter. We give a master equation, from which one can recover, as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-22 Ali Övgün , Kimet Jusufi

We consider static and spherically symmetric wormhole solutions in extended metric-affine theories of gravity supposing that stability and traversability of these objects can be achieved by means of the geometric degrees of freedom. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 Vittorio De Falco , Salvatore Capozziello

In this work, we explore the possibility that static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole geometries are supported by modified teleparallel gravity or f(T) gravity, where T is the torsion scalar. Considering the field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-16 Christian G. Boehmer , Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

In this paper we study the possibility of sustaining an evolving wormhole via exotic matter made out of phantom energy. We show that this exotic source can support the existence of evolving wormhole spacetimes. Explicitly, a family of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mauricio Cataldo , Pedro Labrana , Sergio del Campo , Juan Crisostomo , Patricio Salgado

We present a family of spherically symmetric Lorentzian wormholes in quadratic F(R) gravity, with a thin shell of matter corresponding to the throat. At each side of the shell the geometry has a different constant value of the curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre

We have examined the possible construction of a stationary, spherically symmetric and spatially inhomogeneous wormhole spacetime supported by the phantom energy. The later is supposed to be represented by the modified Chaplygin gas equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-27 Mubasher Jamil , M. Umar Farooq , Muneer Ahmad Rashid

In 6D general relativity with a scalar field as a source of gravity, a new type of static wormhole solutions is presented: such wormholes connect our universe with a small 2D extra subspace with a universe where this extra subspace is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 K. A. Bronnikov , M. V. Skvortsova

We discuss several properties of static, spherically symmetric wormholes with particular emphasis on the behavior of causal geodesics and the propagation of linear fields. We show there always exist null geodesics which are trapped in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-17 Olivier Sarbach , Thomas Zannias

We construct a new type of thin-shell wormhole for non-asymptotically flat charged black holes in generalized dilaton-axion gravity inspired by low-energy string theory using cut-and-paste technique. We have shown that this thin shell…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Ayan Banerjee , Farook Rahaman , Surajit Chattopadhyay , Sumita Banerjee

We present a family of static and evolving spherically symmetric Lorentzian wormhole solutions in N+1 dimensional Einstein gravity. In general, for static wormholes, we require that at least the radial pressure has a barotropic equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-23 Mauricio Cataldo , Paola Meza , Paul Minning

In this paper, we investigate static spherically symmetric wormhole solutions in the background of $F(T,T_\mathcal{G})$ gravity ($T$ is the torsion scalar and $T_{\mathcal{G}}$ represents teleparallel equivalent of the Gauss-Bonnet term).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-31 M. Sharif , Kanwal Nazir