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We consider a modified Brans-Dicke theory in which except the usual Brans-Dicke parameter a new dimensionful parameter appears which modifies the kinetic term of the scalar field coupled to gravity. Solving the coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Christoforos Vlachos

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

The stability criteria for the generalized Brans-Dicke cosmology in a spatially flat, homogeneous and isotropic cosmological model is discussed in the presence of a perfect fluid. The generalization comes through the channel that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-05 Nandan Roy , Narayan Banerjee

In this paper, we explore higher-dimensional asymptotically flat wormhole geometries in the framework of Gauss-Bonnet (GB) gravity and investigate the effects of the GB term, by considering a specific radial-dependent redshift function and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-06 Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh , Mahdi Kord Zangeneh , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We reconsider the issue of whether scalar-tensor theories can admit stable wormhole configurations supported by a non-trivial radial profile for the scalar field. Using a recently proposed effective theory for perturbations around static,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Gabriele Franciolini , Lam Hui , Riccardo Penco , Luca Santoni , Enrico Trincherini

We give a detailed stability analysis of the Z-string in the standard electroweak model. We identify the mode that determines the stability of the string and numerically map the region of parameter space where the string is stable. For…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Margaret James , Leandros Perivolaropoulos , Tanmay Vachaspati

We test the stability of various wormholes and black holes supported by a scalar field with a negative kinetic term. The general axial perturbations and the monopole type of polar perturbations are considered in the linear approximation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-15 K. A. Bronnikov , R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

Static, spherically symmetric, traversable wormhole solutions with electric or magnetic charges are shown to exist in general relativity in the presence of scalar fields nonminimally coupled to gravity. These wormholes, however, turn out to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Bronnikov , S. Grinyok

In multidimensional gravity with an arbitrary number of internal Ricci-flat factor spaces, interacting with electric and magnetic $p$-branes, spherically symmetric configurations are considered. It is shown that all single-brane black-hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 K. A. Bronnikov , V. N. Melnikov

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

We investigate the static solutions of Callan and Maldecena and Gibbons to lowest order Dirac-Born-Infeld theory. Among them are charged wormhole solutions connecting branes to anti-branes. It is seen that there are no such solutions when…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 A. Pinzul , A. Stern

We investigate the quantum stability of a timelike topological wormhole with a simple geometry $M_2 \times S^2$, supported classically by anisotropic fluid. We compute the one-loop quantum backreaction generated by the vacuum fluctuations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-13 Haris Mehulic , Tomislav Prokopec

Spherically symmetric thin-shell wormholes in the presence of a cosmological constant are constructed applying the cut-and-paste technique implemented by Visser. Using the Darmois-Israel formalism the surface stresses, which are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Paulo Crawford

The existence of Traversable Wormhole (TW) in the 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (4D-EGB) gravity is explored with phenomenological Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC) dark matter density profile. In the framework of 4D EGB gravity, which one obtains…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-04 Bibhash Das , Bikash Chandra Paul

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

Recently, Ba\~{n}ados, Teitelboim and Zanelli (BTZ) \cite{BTZ1992} has discovered an explicit vacuum solution of (2+1)-dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant. It has been argued that the existence of such physical systems…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Farook Rahaman , A. Banerjee , I. Radinschi

Traversability in relation with tides in thin-shell wormholes is revisited to investigate the possibility of improving recently noted restrictive conditions for a safe travel across a wormhole throat. We consider wormholes mathematically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-05 E. Rubín de Celis , C. Simeone

This paper investigates static spherically symmetric traversable wormhole solutions in $f(\mathcal{G},T)$ gravity ($\mathcal{G}$ and $T$ represent the Gauss-Bonnet invariant and trace of the energy-momentum tensor, respectively). We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-10 M. Sharif , Ayesha Ikram

The primary objective of this article is to study the energy condition bounds for spherical and hyperbolic wormholes in well-known $f(R,T)$ theory of gravity. For this purpose, we formulate the field equations for spherically and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-19 M. Zubair , Quratulien Muneer , Saira Waheed

We develop an extremely general and robust framework that can be adapted to wide classes of generic spherically symmetric thin-shell gravastars. The thin shell (transition layer) will be permitted to move freely in the bulk spacetimes,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-25 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Prado Martín-Moruno , Nadiezhda Montelongo-García , Matt Visser