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A fundamental ingredient in wormhole physics is the flaring-out condition at the throat which, in classical general relativity, entails the violation of the null energy condition. In this work, we present the most general conditions in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-29 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo , M. K. Mak , Sergey V. Sushkov

We consider the possibility of multiply-connected spacetimes, ranging from the Flamm-Einstein-Rosen bridge, geons, and the modern renaissance of traversable wormholes. A fundamental property in wormhole physics is the flaring-out condition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-14 Francisco S. N. Lobo

In the present article, models of traversable wormholes within the $f(R, T)$ modified gravity theory are investigated. We have presented some wormhole models, developed from various hypothesis for the substance of their matter, i.e. various…

General Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Ambuj Kumar Mishra , Umesh Kumar Sharma , Vipin Chandra Dubey , Anirudh Pradhan

A fundamental ingredient in wormhole physics is the presence of exotic matter, which involves the violation of the null energy condition. Although a plethora of wormhole solutions have been explored in the literature, it is useful to find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-19 Francisco S. N. Lobo

Wormholes that meet the flare-out condition violate the weak energy condition in classical general relativity. The purpose of this note is to show that even a slight modification of the gravitational theory could, under certain conditions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-03 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

In this work, we construct traversable wormhole geometries in the context of f(R) modified theories of gravity. We impose that the matter threading the wormhole satisfies the energy conditions, so that it is the effective stress-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-12 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Miguel A. Oliveira

We study wormhole solutions in the framework of f (R,T) gravity where R is the scalar curvature, and T is the trace of the stress-energy tensor of the matter. We have obtained the shape function of the wormhole by specifying an equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-30 Tahereh Azizi

While wormholes may be just as good a prediction of Einstein's theory as black holes, they are subject to severe restrictions from quantum field theory. In particular, a wormhole can only be held open by violating the null energy condition,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-31 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

It was argued in literature that traversable wormholes can exist with arbitrarily small violation of null energy conditions. We show that if the amount of exotic material near the wormhole throat tends to zero, either this leads to a horn…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 O. B. Zaslavskii

Following the recent theory of Lovelock-Brans-Dicke gravity, we continue to investigate the conditions to support traversable wormholes by the gravitational effects of spacetime parity and topology, which arise from the nonminimal couplings…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-08 David Wenjie Tian

We study the existence and properties of wormhole throats in modified $f(R)$ gravity theory. Specifically, we concentrate on the cases where the lapse is not necessarily constant, and hence are not limited to the zero tidal force scenarios.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Andrew DeBenedictis , Dubravko Horvat

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

A fundamental property of Morris-Thorne wormholes is the so-called flare-out condition that automatically results in a violation of the null energy condition (NEC) in classical general relativity. By contrast, in $f(R)$ modified gravity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-20 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

We establish a general no--go theorem demonstrating that all traversable wormhole configurations in Unimodular Gravity necessarily require exotic matter. The proof relies solely on the geometric flaring-out condition, $b'(r_0) \leq 1$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Mauricio Cataldo , Norman Cruz , Patricio Salgado

Holding a Morris-Thorne wormhole open requires a violation of the null energy condition, calling for the need for so-called exotic matter near the throat. Many researchers consider exotic matter to be completely unphysical in classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-01 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

Wormholes and black holes have traditionally been treated a quite separate objects with relatively little overlap. The possibility of a connection arises in that wormholes, if they exist, might have profound influence on black holes, their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-27 Matt Visser , David Hochberg

We present the first analysis of traversable wormhole solutions within the framework of Einstein-aether theory. We show that the corresponding field equations admit three distinct wormhole geometries, obtained by adopting three different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Hanif Golchin , Hamid R. Bakhtiarizadeh , Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh

Traversable wormholes have traditionally been viewed as intrinsically topological entities in some multiply connected spacetime. Here, we show that topology is too limited a tool to accurately characterize a generic traversable wormhole: in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-30 David Hochberg , Matt Visser

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

Wormhole is defined as the topological structure with the throat connecting two asymptotically flat spaces. In order to have and maintain the structure of the wormhole, there needs the geometrical flare-out condition, i.e., the minimal size…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Sung-Won Kim
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