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We numerically construct a symmetric wormhole solution in pure Einstein gravity supported by a massive $3$-form field with a potential that contains a quartic self-interaction term. The wormhole spacetimes have only a single throat and they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-22 Mariam Bouhmadi-López , Che-Yu Chen , Xiao Yan Chew , Yen Chin Ong , Dong-han Yeom

Smooth-throat wormholes are treated on as possessing quantum fluctuation energy with scalar massive field as its source. Heat kernel coefficients of the Laplace operator are calculated in background of the arbitrary-profile throat wormhole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Nail R. Khusnutdinov

We analyse a variety of Euclidean saddles in the gravitational path integral, with asymptotic AdS boundary conditions, in a class of Einstein-Scalar-Maxwell models. These include single boundary solutions, usual and wineglass wormholes, as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-21 Panos Betzios , Paul Ghiringhelli , Ioannis D. Gialamas , Olga Papadoulaki

We present the first results of a self-consistent solution of the semiclassical Einstein field equations corresponding to a Lorentzian wormhole coupled to a quantum scalar field. The specific solution presented here represents a wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 David Hochberg , Arkadiy Popov , Sergey V. Sushkov

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

We study the Lorentzian static traversable wormholes coupled to quadratic scalar fields. We also obtain the solutions of the scalar fields and matters in the wormhole background and find that the minimal size of the wormhole should be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. -W. Kim , S. P. Kim

We consider the quantum analogues of wormholes obtained by Carlini and Miji\'c (CM), who analytically continued closed universe models. To obtain wormholes when the strong energy condition ($\gamma>2/3$) is satisfied, we are able to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 A. Carlini , D. H. Coule , D. M. Solomons

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

This essay discusses recent progress on Euclidean wormholes as candidate contributions to the Universe's initial quantum state. The comparison with the Hartle-Hawking no-boundary proposal highlights both a conceptual affinity and genuine…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Panos Betzios , Paul Ghiringhelli , Ioannis D. Gialamas , Olga Papadoulaki

We explore the possibility of dynamic wormhole geometries, within the context of nonlinear electrodynamics. The Einstein field equation imposes a contracting wormhole solution and the obedience of the weak energy condition. Furthermore, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron V. B. Arellano , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We consider static spherically symmetric wormhole configurations in a gravitational theory of a scalar field with a potential $V(\phi)$ and nonminimal derivative coupling to the curvature describing by the term $(\epsilon g_{\mu\nu} +…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Sergey Sushkov , Roman Korolev

This work is devoted to the study of analytic wormhole solutions within the framework of $f(R)$ gravity theory. To check the possibility of having wormhole structures satisfying energy conditions, by means of the class I approach the pair…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-09 A. S. Agrawal , B. Mishra , Francisco Tello-Ortiz , A. Alvarez

In this paper, we study quantum relativistic features of a scalar field around the Rindler-Schwarzschild wormhole. First, we introduce this new class of spacetime, investigating some energy conditions and verifying their violation in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-29 C. R. Muniz , H. R. Christiansen , M. S. Cunha , J. Furtado , V. B. Bezerra

We consider stationary, cylindrically symmetric configurations in general relativity and formulate necessary conditions for the existence of rotating cylindrical wormholes. It is shown that in a comoving reference frame the rotational part…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-12 Kirill A. Bronnikov , Vladimir G. Krechet , José P. S. Lemos

On this paper we consider the classical wormhole solution of the Born-Infeld scalar field. The corresponding classical wormhole solution can be obtained analytically for both very small and large $\dot{\phi}$. At the extreme limits of small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Q. Lu , L. M. Shen , P. Ji , G. F. Ji , N. J. Sun

We consider novel wormhole solutions supported by a matter content that minimally violates the null energy condition. More specifically, we consider an equation of state in which the sum of the energy density and radial pressure is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-10 Mariam Bouhmadi-Lopez , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Prado Martin-Moruno

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 spacetimes may be responsible for the possible loss of quantum coherence and the introduction of additional fundamental quantum indeterminancy of the values of constants of nature. As a system which is known to admit such classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Hongsu Kim

We present a few Euclidean wormhole configurations using both the analytic and numerical solutions of the field equations considering Einstein Gauss-Bonnet dilaton interaction in 4-dimensional Robertson Walker Euclidean background. In one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Gargi Biswas , M K Dutta , B Modak

We study the process of quantum tunnelling in self-interacting scalar field theories with non-minimal coupling to gravity. In these theories gravitational instantons can develop a neck -- a feature prohibited in theories with minimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 Lorenzo Battarra , George Lavrelashvili , Jean-Luc Lehners