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A possible candidate for the late time accelerated expanding Universe is phantom energy, which possesses rather bizarre properties, such as the prediction of a Big Rip singularity and the violation of the null energy condition. The latter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Remo Garattini , Francisco S. N. Lobo

Within the framework of $F(R)$ theories of gravity with (2+1)-dimensions and constant scalar curvature $R$, we construct a family of thin-shell wormholes with circular symmetry and we analyze the stability of the static configurations under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-31 Cecilia Bejarano , Ernesto F. Eiroa , Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre

In the present work, we seek for static spherically symmetric solutions representing wormhole configurations in generalized Rastall gravity (GRG). In this theory, a varying coupling parameter could act as dark energy (DE) and thus, it can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-08 Naser Sadeghnezhad

Recently, a novel model for a regular black hole was advocated which possesses an asymptotically Minkowski core implemented via an exponential suppression (in the core region) of the Misner-Sharp quasi-local mass. Using this regular black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-23 Thomas Berry , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Alex Simpson , Matt Visser

We construct traversable thin-shell wormholes in the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati theory with cylindrical symmetry applying the cut and paste procedure to a flat black string solution of the five-dimensional vacuum Einstein field equations. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-01 Martín G. Richarte

We consider Ellis wormholes immersed in rotating matter in the form of an ordinary complex boson field. The resulting wormholes may possess full reflection symmetry with respect to the two asymptotically flat spacetime regions. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-08 Christian Hoffmann , Theodora Ioannidou , Sarah Kahlen , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

This paper explores the effect of an extra spatial dimension on a Morris-Thorne wormhole. After proposing a suitable model, it is shown that under certain conditions, the throat of the wormhole can be threaded with ordinary matter, while…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-05 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

In this work, we consider wormhole geometries in third-order Lovelock gravity and investigate the possibility that these solutions satisfy the energy conditions. In this framework, by applying a specific equation of state, we obtain exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-09 Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh , Francisco S. N. Lobo

A dynamical theory of traversable wormholes is detailed in spherical symmetry. Generically a wormhole consists of a tunnel of trapped surfaces between two mouths, defined as temporal outer trapping horizons with opposite senses, in mutual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-30 Sean A. Hayward

In this article, we study thin shells of matter connecting charged black string geometries with different values of the corresponding parameters. We analyze the matter content and the mechanical stability of the shells undergoing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-29 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Emilio Rubin de Celis , Claudio Simeone

In this article, we study the possibility of sustaining a static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole geometries admitting conformal motion in Einstein gravity, which presents a more systematic approach to search a relation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-01 Piyali Bhar , Farook Rahaman , Tuhina Manna , Ayan Banerjee

It is a very well known fact that the energy conditions concerning Lorentzian wormhole (WH) solutions of Einstein equations are violated. Consequently, attempts to avoid the violation of the energy conditions constitutes one of the main…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-01 Everton M. C. Abreu , Nélio Sasaki

In this work, we investigate wormhole geometries with multiple throats and anti-throats in general relativity. The existence of these structures is identified through the analysis of minima and maxima in the area of the solution. Using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-09 T. M. Crispim , Marcos V. de S. Silva , G. Alencar , Celio R. Muniz , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

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

In quadratic gravity, the junction conditions are six and permit the appearance of double layer thin shells. Double layers arise typically in theories with dipoles, i.e., two opposite charges, such as electromagnetic theories, and appear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-12 Joao Luís Rosa , Rui André , José P. S. Lemos

It is well known that it takes matter that violates the averaged weak energy condition to hold the throat of a wormhole open. The production of such ``exotic'' matter is usually discussed within the context of quantum field theory. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Dan N. Vollick

We investigate spherically symmetric and static traversable wormholes supported by exotic matter, focusing on solutions sourced by physically motivated dark matter energy density profiles. Considering the Thomas-Fermi-type distribution, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Remo Garattini , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Kirill Zatrimaylov

This work constructs a new class of traversable wormhole solutions with a double-throat topology, modeled as a localized perturbation of the Ellis-Bronnikov metric in a string cloud background. Embedding diagrams and the analysis of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 Yvens Amaral , M. S. Cunha , C. R. Muniz , M. O. Tahim

We consider the construction of generic spherically symmetric thin-shell traversable wormhole spacetimes in standard general relativity. By using the cut-and-paste procedure, we comprehensively analyze the stability of arbitrary spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-16 Nadiezhda Montelongo Garcia , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Matt Visser

Wormholes allowed by the general theory of relativity that are simultaneously traversable by humanoid travelers are subject to severe constraints from quantum field theory, particularly the so-called quantum inequalities, here slightly…

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