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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

The firm observational confirmation of the late-time acceleration of the universe expansion has proposed a major challenge to the theoretical foundations of cosmology and the explanation of the acceleration mechanism requires the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-20 D Wang , Xin-He Meng

It has been suggested that a possible candidate for the present accelerated expansion of the Universe is ''phantom energy''. The latter possesses an equation of state of the form $\omega\equiv p/\rho<-1$, consequently violating the null…

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

When Morris and Thorne first proposed that wormholes might be actual physical structures suitable for interstellar travel, they needed to pay close attention to certain traversability conditions such as low tidal forces, which placed severe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-15 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig , Vance D. Gladney

The gargantuan discrepancy between the value of the observed cosmological constant and that expected from the zero-point energy of known matter fields can be eliminated by supposing that on macroscopic scales the overwhelming majority of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Enrico Rodrigo

A study of the dynamical and thermodynamical stability of a charged thin-shell wormhole built by gluing two Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m geometries is presented. The charge on the shell is linearly related to the matter content. For the dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-25 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre , Miguel L. Peñafiel , Santiago E. Perez Bergliaffa

We construct traversable wormholes by starting with simple four-dimensional classical solutions respecting the null energy condition and containing a pair of oppositely charged black holes connected by a non-traversable wormhole. We then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-03 Zicao Fu , Brianna Grado-White , Donald Marolf

In this study, we explore a topologically charged higher-dimensional traversable defect wormhole, with a specific emphasis on five dimensions. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that the matter-energy distribution attributed to this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-06 Faizuddin Ahmed

A radial deformation of the Kerr metric is studied which leads to the appearance of wormholes in certain cases. {\bf These wormholes can be thought of as being formed by two distinct but identical asymptotically non-flat spacetimes joined…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-17 T. Ghasabi , N. Riazi

In this article, we present a stationary metric ansatz to describe a rotating traversable wormhole in the presence of the topological defect produced by a global monopole charge. This particular rotating space-time is referred to as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-18 Faizuddin Ahmed

This work investigates the spherically symmetric thin-shell wormhole solutions in four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory and explores their stabilities under radial, linear perturbations. These solutions are typically traversable and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-25 Peng Liu , Chao Niu , Wei-Liang Qian , Xiaobao Wang , Cheng-Yong Zhang

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 2015-05-28 Nadiezhda Montelongo Garcia , Francisco S. N. Lobo

A simple spacetime wormhole, which evolves classically from zero throat radius to a maximum value and recontracts, can be regarded as one possible mode of fluctuation in the microscopic ``spacetime foam'' first suggested by Wheeler. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Ian Redmount , Wai-Mo Suen

We have found a simple exact solution of spherically-symmetrical Einstein equations describing a wormhole for an inhomogeneous distribution of the phantom energy. The equation of state is linear but highly anisotropic: while the radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 O. B. Zaslavskii

We investigate the time evolution due to gravitational dynamics of a particular spacetime commonly used in brane-cosmology and string compactifications, namely the Klebanov-Strassler geometry, which is achieved by adding a perturbation to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Neil A. Butcher , Paul M. Saffin

We consider the self-energy and the self-force for an electrically charged particle at rest in the wormhole space-time. We develop general approach and apply it to two specific profiles of the wormhole throat with singular and with smooth…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Nail R. Khusnutdinov , Ilya V. Bakhmatov

Although wormholes can be treated as topological objects in spacetime and from a global point-of-view, a precise definition of what a wormhole throat is and where it can be located can be developed and treated entirely in terms of local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 David Hochberg , Matt Visser

Scalar-tensor $f(R)$ theory of gravity is considered in the framework of a simple inhomogeneous space-time model. In this we use the reconstruction technique to look for possible evolving wormhole solutions within viable $f(R)$ gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-14 Subhra Bhattacharya , S. Chakraborty

The construction of traversable wormholes (WHs) with a cosmological constant, $\Lambda$, introduces significant challenges and leads to non-trivial modifications of the spacetime geometry. In this work, we obtain an analytical solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Rajesh Karmakar , Xian-Hui Ge

The question of a possibility of opening a wormhole due to the deformation of the equation of state of the matter caused by quantum gravity effects is considered. As a wormhole environment, the previously considered model of a galaxy with…

General Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Igor Nikitin