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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

In this article, spherically symmetric thin-shell wormholes supported by a generalized Chaplygin gas are constructed and their stability under perturbations preserving the symmetry is studied. Wormholes with charge and with a cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-28 Ernesto F. Eiroa

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

In this article we study spherical thin-shell wormholes in five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We show that configurations supported by non-exotic matter, that is matter satisfying the weak energy condition, are possible at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Emilio Rubín de Celis , Claudio Simeone

In this work, we investigate static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole solutions within the framework of the extended symmetric teleparallel gravity, specifically the $\mathcal{F}(Q,\mathcal{L}_{m},\mathcal{T})$ gravity theory,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Rounak Manna , Krishna Pada Das , Ujjal Debnath

The Zipoy-Voorhees-Weyl (ZVW) spacetime characterized by mass ($M$) and oblateness ($\delta $) is proposed in the construction of viable thin-shell wormholes (TSWs). Departure from spherical / cylindrical symmetry yields positive total…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-30 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

Recently, a class of spherically symmetric thin-shell wormholes in Brans-Dicke gravity have been introduced. Such wormholes can be supported by matter satisfying the weak energy condition (WEC). In this paper, we first obtain all the exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Xiaojun Yue , Sijie Gao

In this article, we construct a family of spherically symmetric thin-shell wormholes within scalar-tensor theories of gravity. In the case of wormholes symmetric across the throat, we study the matter content and analyze the stability of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre , Vasiliki Karanasou

We provide a new matter source that supplies fuel to construct wormhole spacetime. The exact wormhole solutions are found in the model having, besides real matter, an anisotropic dark energy. We have shown that the exotic matters that are…

General Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Farook Rahaman , Saibal Ray , Safiqul Islam

This paper reexamines a special class of thin-shell wormholes that are unstable in general relativity in the framework of noncommutative geometry. It is shown that as a consequence of the intrinsic uncertainty these wormholes are stable to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-21 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

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

We consider $f(R, T)$ theory of gravity, in which the gravitational Lagrangian is given by an arbitrary function of the Ricci scalar and the trace of the energy-momentum tensor, to study static spherically symmetric wormhole geometries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-03 Ayan Banerjee , M. K. Jasim , Sushant G. Ghosh

We construct a rotating thin-shell wormhole using a Myers-Perry black hole in five dimensions, using the Darmois-Israel junction conditions. The stability of the wormhole is analyzed under perturbations. We find that exotic matter is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-04 A. Ovgun

This paper discusses a new type of thin-shell wormhole constructed by applying the cut-and-paste technique to two copies of a charged black hole in generalized dilaton-axion gravity, which was inspired by low-energy string theory. After…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-09 A. A. Usmani , F. Rahaman , Saibal Ray , Sk. A. Rakib , Z. Hasan , Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

We show that non-minimal coupling between matter and geometry can indeed help in constructing stable, traversable, wormholes (WHs) without requiring exotic matter under certain conditions. In models like $f({\cal Q},{\cal T})={\cal Q}+\beta…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 G. G. L. Nashed , Waleed El Hanafy

We consider a topologically nontrivial thin-shell wormhole with a throat in the form of a $T^2$ torus. It is shown that: (i)~such a wormhole is stable with respect to excitations of the throat; (ii)~not all energy conditions are violated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-27 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

The linearized stability of charged thin shell wormholes under spherically symmetric perturbations is analized. It is shown that the presence of a large value of charge provides stabilization to the system, in the sense that the constrains…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Gustavo E. Romero

This paper is devoted to find the feasible shape functions for the construction of static wormhole geometry in the frame work of logarithmic-corrected $R^2$ gravity model. We discuss the asymptotically flat wormhole solutions sustained by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-21 I. Fayyaz , M. Farasat Shamir

This current analysis offers novel wormhole solutions in the background of newly developed extended $f(\mathcal{R},\mathcal{L}_m)$ gravity. We use an anisotropic matter source and a particular type of energy density demonstrating cold dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 G. Mustafa , Faisal Javed , S. K. Maurya , M. Govender , Amna Saleem

Based on the recently introduced black-bounce spacetimes, we shall consider the construction of the related spherically symmetric thin-shell traversable wormholes within the context of standard general relativity. All of the really unusual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-23 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Alex Simpson , Matt Visser