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Much attention has been recently devoted to modified theories of gravity in the attempt to efficiently describe both early inflation and late-time acceleration of our universe without referring to the cosmological constant or other ad hoc…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 R. Di Criscienzo , R. Myrzakulov , L. Sebastiani

In this work, we construct time-dependent wormhole solutions in the context of $f(R)$ theory of gravity. The background matter is considered to be traceless. By considering specific shape function and power-law expansion exact solutions for…

General Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 H. Saiedi , B. Nasr Esfahani

Traversable wormhole solutions in General Relativity require exotic matter sources that violate the null energy condition (NEC), and such behavior maybe avoided in modified gravity. In this study, we analyze the energy conditions for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Anshuman Baruah , Parangam Goswami , Atri Deshamukhya

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

The ghost-free bi-metric gravity theory is a viable theory of gravity that explores the interaction between a massless and a massive graviton and can be described in terms of two dynamical metrics. In this paper, we present an exact static,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Mostafizur Rahman , Anjan A Sen , Sunil Singh Bohra

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

In this study, we investigate the possible existence of static and spherically symmetric wormhole solutions within the context of the newly formulated extended $f(Q,T)$ gravity. We analyze a linear model, $f(Q,T)=\alpha Q+ \beta T$, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-03 Sara Rastgoo , Foad Parsaei , Soudabe Nasirimoghadam

In Einstein gravity, for an inhomogeneous phantom energy distribution having linear equation of state (but anisotropic), there exists simple exact solution for spherically symmetric space time describing a wormhole. At infinity, the space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Subenoy Chakraborty , Tanwi Bandyopadhyay

Wormholes (WHs) are considered as hypothetical shortcuts or tunnels in spacetime. In general relativity (GR), the fundamental ingredient of WH geometry is the presence of exotic matter at the throat, which is responsible for the violation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-19 Parbati Sahoo , Annika Kirschner , P. K. Sahoo

In this paper, exact wormhole solutions in the context of $f(R)$ theory of gravity are investigated. Since the Einstein field equations are modified in 3+1 dimensions in the $f(R)$ theory of gravity, we have studied some possible solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-15 Foad Parsaei , Sara Rastgoo

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

We present new traversable wormhole and non-singular black hole solutions in pure, scale-free $R^2$ gravity. These exotic solutions require no null energy condition violating or "exotic" matter and are supported only by the vacuum of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-02 Francis Duplessis , Damien A. Easson

We consider the inhomogeneous Morris-Thorne wormhole metric with matter tensors characterised by a novel linear equation of state in $f(R)$ gravity. Using the Einstein's field equations in metric $f(R)$ gravity we model solutions for both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Subhasis Nalui , Subhra Bhattacharya

In this paper, exact asymptotically flat wormhole solutions in the context of symmetric teleparallel gravity, i.e., $f(Q)$ theory of gravity, are investigated. Since modified theories of gravity provide new field equations, we have analyzed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-08 Foad Parsaei , Sara Rastgoo , P. K. Sahoo

We study Lorentzian wormholes in the ghost-free bigravity theory described by two metrics, g and f. Wormholes can exist if only the null energy condition is violated, which happens naturally in the bigravity theory since the graviton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Sergey V. Sushkov , Mikhail S. Volkov

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

In this paper, we explore static spherically symmetric wormhole solutions in the framework of $n$-dimensional Einstein Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Our objective is to find out wormhole solutions that satisfy energy conditions. For this purpose,…

General Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Shamaila Rani , Abdul Jawad

We examine the linear stability of static, spherically symmetric wormhole solutions of Einstein's field equations coupled to a massless ghost scalar field. These solutions are parametrized by the areal radius of their throat and the product…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-25 J. A. Gonzalez , F. S. Guzman , O. Sarbach

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

The current study explores the generalized embedded wormhole solutions in the background of $f(\mathcal{R},\mathcal{G})$ gravity, where $\mathcal{R}$ represents the Ricci scalar and $\mathcal{G}$ denotes the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. To…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-14 Asifa Ashraf , Saadia Mumtaz , Faisal Javed , Zhiyue Zhang