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This paper generalizes two of the author's earlier wormhole solutions that are characterized by an extra spatial dimension. This paper adds the assumption that the components of the line element are functions not only of the radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

When bosonic matter in the form of a complex scalar field is added to Ellis wormholes, the phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking is observed. Symmetric solutions possess full reflection symmetry with respect to the radial coordinate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-12 Christian Hoffmann , Theodora Ioannidou , Sarah Kahlen , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

Wormholes are hypothetical tunnels that connect remote parts of spacetime. In General Relativity, wormholes are threaded by exotic matter that violates the energy conditions. In this work, we consider wormholes threaded by nonexotic matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-26 Rui-Hui Lin , Zhen-Yuan Wu , Xiang-Hua Zhai

We study Lorentzian wormholes in the ghost-free bigravity theory described by two metrics, g and f. Wormholes can exist if only the null energy condition is violated, which happens naturally in the bigravity theory since the graviton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Sergey V. Sushkov , Mikhail S. Volkov

Novel wormholes are obtained in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory for several coupling functions. The wormholes may feature a single-throat or a double-throat geometry and do not demand any exotic matter. The scalar field may…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-22 Georgios Antoniou , Athanasios Bakopoulos , Panagiota Kanti , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

In 6D general relativity with a scalar field as a source of gravity, a new type of static wormhole solutions is presented: such wormholes connect our universe with a small 2D extra subspace with a universe where this extra subspace is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 K. A. Bronnikov , M. V. Skvortsova

We construct wormholes in Einstein-vector-Gauss-Bonnet theory where a real massless vector field is coupled to the higher curvature Gauss-Bonnet invariant. We consider three coupling functions which depend on the square of the vector field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-28 Simon Barton , Claus Kiefer , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

We study static, spherically symmetric mixed configurations with a nontrivial (wormhole) spacetime topology provided by the presence of two interacting ghost scalar fields. Wormhole is assumed to be filled by a perfect relativistic neutron…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-08 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev , Ajnur Urazalina

In this work, we find novel static and spherically symmetric wormhole geometries using a three-form field. By solving the gravitational field equations, we find a variety of analytical and numerical solutions and show that it is possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-10 Bruno J. Barros , Francisco S. N. Lobo

Using simplicial minisuperspace techniques we obtain a wormhole configuration, capable of modelling both a throat between two equal Euclidean and Lorentzian universes. Computing the wavefunction associated to such configuration we conclude…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 Cristovao Correia da Silva , Ruth M. Williams

This brief review discusses the existence conditions of wormhole throats and wormholes as global configurations in general relativity under the assumptions of cylindrical and axial symmetries. It is pointed out, in particular, that wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-07 K. A. Bronnikov , M. V. Skvortsova

We study the geometry of a wormhole spacetime filled with anisotropic matter in the context of general relativity. In the course of the study, new static and spherically symmetric solutions, analytic and numerical ones, are found. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Youngone Lee

We consider static, spherically symmetric solutions of general relativity with a nonlinear sigma model (NSM) as a source, i.e., a set of scalar fields $\Phi = (\Phi^1,...,\Phi^n)$ (so-called chiral fields) parametrizing a target space with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 K. A. Bronnikov , S. V. Chervon , S. V. Sushkov

We demonstrate, for the first time, that arbitrary spherically symmetric metrics can be derived within a framework based on the coupling of two scalar fields and an electromagnetic field. We then specialize to a class of non-stationary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-08 Yi-bo Liang , Hong-Rong Li

We construct regular multi-wormhole solutions to a gravitating $\sigma$ model in three space-time dimensions, and extend these solutions to cylindrical traversable wormholes in four and five dimensions. We then discuss the possibility of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Gérard Clément

Spacetime wormholes in isotropic spacetimes are represented traditionally by embedding diagrams which were symmetric paraboloids. This mirror symmetry, however, can be broken by considering different sources on different sides of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-15 S. Danial Forghani , S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

We study the problem of existence of static spherically symmetric wormholes supported by the kink-like configuration of a scalar field. With this aim we consider a self-consistent, real, nonlinear, nonminimally coupled scalar field $\phi$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 S. V. Sushkov , S. -W. Kim

We consider rotating wormhole solutions in general relativity supported by a complex non-phantom spinor field (which provides a nontrivial spacetime topology) and electromagnetic fields. The solutions are asymmetric, regular, asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev

Recently we have shown that for $2+1-$dimensional thin-shell wormholes a non-circular throat may lead to a physical wormhole in the sense that the energy conditions are satisfied. By the same token, herein we consider angular dependent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-29 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

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