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Adapting and extending a suggestion due to Page, we define a wormhole throat to be a marginally anti-trapped surface, that is, a closed two-dimensional spatial hypersurface such that one of the two future-directed null geodesic congruences…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 David Hochberg , Matt Visser

A Morris-Thorne wormhole can only be sustained by violating the null energy condition, thereby requiring the existence of "exotic matter," a requirement that many researchers consider unphysical. Using a mostly qualitative approach, it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-09 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

First, the ideas introduced in the wormhole research field since the work of Morris and Thorne are briefly reviewed, namely, the issues of energy conditions, wormhole construction, stability, time machines and astrophysical signatures.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose' P. S. Lemos , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Sergio Quinet de Oliveira

We construct solutions of plane symmetric wormholes in the presence of a negative cosmological constant by matching an interior spacetime to the exterior anti-de Sitter vacuum solution. The spatial topology of this plane symmetric wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 José P. S. Lemos , 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

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 obtain a large class of Lorentzian wormhole spacetimes in scalar-tensor gravity, for which the matter stress energy does satisfy the weak energy condition. Our constructions have zero Ricci scalar and an everywhere finite, non-zero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-12 Rajibul Shaikh , Sayan Kar

We present a systematic study of exact solutions for traversable wormhole geometries in a static and hyperbolic symmetric spacetime. In the conventional form of studying wormhole geometry, traversability requires the presence of exotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-25 Roberto Avalos , Ernesto Contreras , Daniel Brito , Ernesto Fuenmayor

It has been known for a long time that Morris-Thorne wormholes can only be held open by violating the null energy condition, which can be expressed in the form $\tau-\rho c^2>0$, where $\tau$ is the radial tension. Matter that violates this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-19 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

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

Properties of $n(\ge 5)$-dimensional static wormhole solutions are investigated in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with or without a cosmological constant $\Lambda$. We assume that the spacetime has symmetries corresponding to the isometries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hideki Maeda , Masato Nozawa

To create a static traversable wormhole, exotic matter that meets the Morris-Thorne conditions is required. It is well known that the expectation value of the vacuum stress-energy tensor can violate the null energy condition, and thus has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Shun Jiang , Jie Jiang

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

We construct exact nonstatic nonhomogeneous spherically symmetric solutions in the theory of gravity with a scalar field possessing the exponential potential. The solution of particular interest corresponds to the scalar field with negative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergey V. Sushkov , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

A classical membrane model is developed for a dynamic wormhole. Its throat expands hyperbolically with an acceleration proportional to the surface energy density $\sigma$. The model leads to a negative bulk viscosity coefficient $\zeta = -…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-18 Hristu Culetu

We study numerically the stability of Morris & Thorne's first traversible wormhole, shown previously by Ellis to be a solution for a massless ghost Klein-Gordon field. Our code uses a dual-null formulation for spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Hisa-aki Shinkai , Sean A. Hayward

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

Recently a bound on negative energy densities in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime was derived for a minimally coupled, quantized, massless, scalar field in an arbitrary quantum state. The bound has the form of an uncertainty…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 L. H. Ford , Thomas A. Roman

In this letter, we investigate the changes in the quantum vacuum energy density of a massless scalar field inside a Casimir cavity that orbits a wormhole, by considering the cosmological model with an isotropic form of the Morris-Thorne…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-05 A. C. L. Santos , C. R. Muniz , L. T. Oliveira

In this paper we seek a relationship between the assumption of conformal symmetry and the exotic matter needed to hold a wormhole open. By starting with a Morris-Thorne wormhole having a constant energy density, it is shown that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-20 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig