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We obtain traversable wormhole and time machine solutions of the field equations of an alternative of gravity with non-minimally curvature-matter coupling. Our solutions exhibit a non-trivial redshift function and allow for matter that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Orfeu Bertolami , Ricardo Zambujal Ferreira

Applying the Darmois-Israel thin shell formalism, we construct static and dynamic thin shells around traversable wormholes. Firstly, by applying the cut-and-paste technique we apply a linearized stability analysis to thin-shell wormholes in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Francisco S. N. Lobo

We study wormhole geometries embedded in an expanding universe within a four-scalar non-linear $\sigma$ model, where the target-space metric is identified with the spacetime Ricci tensor. In this framework, wormholes can remain stable even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Taishi Katsuragawa , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

In this work, the study of traversable wormholes in $f(R)$ gravity with the function $f(R)=R+\alpha R^n$, where $\alpha$ and $n$ are arbitrary constants, is taken into account. The shape function $b(r)=\frac{r}{\exp(r-r_0)}$, proposed by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-29 Nisha Godani , Gauranga C. Samanta

The newly discovered Wormhole C--metric is a solution of Einstein's field equation coupled with a phantom scalar field which describes the accelerated wormholes. In the zero acceleration limit the solution reduces to an asymptotically flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-12 Soham Chatterjee , Sagnik Roy , Ratna Koley

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

The problem of the electrostatics in conical wormholes is revisited, now improving the background geometries with asymptotical flatness. The electric self-force on a point charge placed at different regions in the spacetime of a conical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-17 E. Rubín de Celis , C. Simeone

The stability of certain class of asymptotically AdS wormholes in vacuum against scalar field perturbations is analyzed. For a free massive scalar field, the stability of the perturbation is guaranteed provided the squared mass is bounded…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Diego H. Correa , Julio Oliva , Ricardo Troncoso

We consider a scalar field with a negative kinetic term minimally coupled to gravity. We obtain an exact non-static spherically symmetric solution which describes a wormhole in cosmological setting. The wormhole is shown to connect two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 S. V. Sushkov , S. -W. Kim

We consider wormhole geometries subject to a gravitational action consisting of non-linear powers of the Ricci scalar. Specifically, wormhole throats are studied in the case where Einstein gravity is supplemented with a Ricci-squared and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Furey , A. DeBenedictis

To find more deliberate $f(R, T)$ astrophysical solutions, we proceed by studying wormhole geometries under the assumption of spherical symmetry and the existence of a conformal Killing symmetry to attain the more acceptable astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-21 Ayan Banerjee , Ksh. Newton Singh , M. K. Jasim , Farook Rahaman

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

The near-horizon region of magnetically charged black holes can have very strong magnetic fields. A useful low-energy effective theory for fluctuations of the fields, coupled to electrically charged particles, is force-free electrodynamics.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Nabil Iqbal , Simon F. Ross

We study numerically the stability of Morris & Thorne's first traversible wormhole, shown previously by Ellis to be a solution for a massless ghost Klein-Gordon field. Our code uses a dual-null formulation for spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Hisa-aki Shinkai , Sean A. Hayward

It is generally agreed that the acceleration of the Universe can best be explained by the presence of dark or phantom energy. The equation of state of the latter shows that the null energy condition is violated. Such a violation is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Mubasher Jamil , Peter K. F. Kuhfittig , Farook Rahaman , Sk. A Rakib

We study geodesic motion near the throats of asymptotically flat, static, spherically~symmetric traversable wormholes supported by a self-gravitating minimally coupled phantom scalar field with an arbitrary self-interaction potential. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-20 Ivan Potashov , Julia Tchemarina , Alexander Tsirulev

We describe a class of wormholes that generically become traversable after incorporating gravitational back-reaction from linear quantum fields satisfying appropriate (periodic or anti-periodic) boundary conditions around a non-contractible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-12 Zicao Fu , Brianna Grado-White , Donald Marolf

This work investigates the spherically symmetric thin-shell wormhole solutions in four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory and explores their stabilities under radial, linear perturbations. These solutions are typically traversable and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-25 Peng Liu , Chao Niu , Wei-Liang Qian , Xiaobao Wang , Cheng-Yong Zhang

We present an infinite class of one-parameter scalar field extensions to the BTZ black hole in 2+1-dimensions. By virtue of the scalar charge the thin-shell wormhole supported by a linear fluid at the throat becomes stable against linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-21 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , Z. Amirabi , M. Halilsoy

Some recent papers have claimed the existence of static, spherically symmetric wormhole solutions to gravitational field equations in the absence of ghost (or phantom) degrees of freedom. We show that in some such cases the solutions in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 K. A. Bronnikov , M. V. Skvortsova , A. A. Starobinsky