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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

The effects of asymptotically anti-de Sitter wormholes in low-energy field theory are calculated in full detail for three different matter contents: a conformal scalar field, an electromagnetic field and gravitons. There exists a close…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Barcelo , L. J. Garay

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

In this work, we investigate wormhole geometries with multiple throats and anti-throats in general relativity. The existence of these structures is identified through the analysis of minima and maxima in the area of the solution. Using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-09 T. M. Crispim , Marcos V. de S. Silva , G. Alencar , Celio R. Muniz , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

By choosing an appropriate vielbein basis, we obtain a class of spherically-symmetric solutions in $f(T)$ gravities. The solutions are asymptotic to Minkowski spacetimes with leading falloffs the same as those of the Schwarzschild black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-21 Zhan-Feng Mai , H. Lu

We argue that a spherically symmetric traversable wormhole solution of the Einstein field equations can be supported by minimally coupled self-interacting scalar field which allows a spontaneous symmetry breaking of the field around the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 Soumya Chakrabarti , Chiranjeeb Singha

We study wormhole geometries embedded in an expanding universe within a four-scalar non-linear $\sigma$ model, where the target-space metric is identified with the spacetime Ricci tensor. In this framework, wormholes can remain stable even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Taishi Katsuragawa , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

In 1921 Bach and Weyl derived the method of superposition to construct new axially symmetric vacuum solutions of General Relativity. In this paper we extend the Bach-Weyl approach to non-vacuum configurations with massless scalar fields.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 A. I. Egorov , P. E. Kashargin , Sergey V. Sushkov

A static wormhole solution for gravity in vacuum is found for odd dimensions greater than four. In five dimensions the gravitational theory considered is described by the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet action where the coupling of the quadratic term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gustavo Dotti , Julio Oliva , Ricardo Troncoso

In this article, we have discussed Morris and Thorne (MT) wormhole solutions in a modified theory of gravity that admits conformal motion. Here we explore the wormhole solutions in $f(R,\,T)$ gravity, which is a function of the Ricci scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-04 Piyali Bhar , Pramit Rej , P. K. Sahoo

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

Wormhole solutions in gravitational theories typically require exotic matter. Here we present a wormhole solution to the field equations of Einsteinian Cubic Gravity -- a phenomenological competitor to general relativity that includes terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-04 Mengqi Lu , Jiayue Yang , Robert B. Mann

A multidimensional cosmological model with space-time consisting of $n (n \ge 2)$ Einstein spaces $M_{i}$ is investigated in the presence of a cosmological constant $\Lambda$ and a homogeneous minimally coupled scalar field $\varphi(t)$ as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 U. Bleyer , V. D. Ivashchuk , V. N. Melnikov , A. Zhuk

In this work the possible geodesic completeness of an electromagnetic dipole wormhole is studied in detail. The space-time contains a curvature singularity and belongs to a class of solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equations with a coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-23 Juan Carlos Del Águila , Tonatiuh Matos

On the basis of exact solutions to the Einstein-Abelian gauge-dilaton equations in $D$-dimensional gravity, the properties of static axial configurations are discussed. Solutions free of curvature singularities are selected; they can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Kirill A. Bronnikov , Julio C. Fabris

We give a detailed account of the properties of spinning Ellis wormholes, supported by a phantom field. The general set of solutions depends on three parameters, associated with the size of the throat, the rotation and the symmetry of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Xiao Yan Chew , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

In the context of $f(R)$ gravity theories, the issue of finding static and spherically symmetric black hole solutions is addressed. Two approaches to study the existence of such solutions are considered: first, constant curvature solutions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Antonio Dobado , Antonio L. Maroto

We consider static spherically symmetric configurations in a Palatini extension of General Relativity including $R^2$ and Ricci-squared terms, which is known to replace the central singularity by a wormhole in the electrovacuum case. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-29 E. I. Guendelman , Gonzalo J. Olmo , D. Rubiera-Garcia , M. Vasihoun

In general relativity with vector and scalar fields given by the Lagrangian ${\cal L}(F,\phi,X)$, where $F$ is a Maxwell term and $X$ is a kinetic term of the scalar field $\phi$, we study the linear stability of static and spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-18 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Tsujikawa

In certain extensions of General Relativity, wormholes generated by spherically symmetric electric fields can resolve black hole singularities without necessarily removing curvature divergences. This is shown by studying geodesic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Gonzalo J. Olmo , D. Rubiera-Garcia , A. Sanchez-Puente