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In Einstein gravity, for an inhomogeneous phantom energy distribution having linear equation of state (but anisotropic), there exists simple exact solution for spherically symmetric space time describing a wormhole. At infinity, the space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Subenoy Chakraborty , Tanwi Bandyopadhyay

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

A static spherically symmetric wormhole solution for conformal gravity in vacuum is found. The solution possesses a single integration constant which determines the size of the neck connecting two static homogeneous universes of constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-08 Julio Oliva , David Tempo , Ricardo Troncoso

We discuss several properties of static, spherically symmetric wormholes with particular emphasis on the behavior of causal geodesics and the propagation of linear fields. We show there always exist null geodesics which are trapped in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-17 Olivier Sarbach , Thomas Zannias

The inclusion of the Weyl squared term in the gravitational action is one of the most simple, yet non trivial modifications to General Relativity at high energies. Nevertheless the study of the spherically-symmetric vacuum solutions of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-29 Alfio Bonanno , Samuele Silveravalle , Alessandro Zuccotti

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

We review a new traversable-wormhole solution of the gravitational field equation of general relativity without exotic matter. Instead of having exotic matter to keep the wormhole throat open, the solution relies on a 3-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-25 Frans R. Klinkhamer

In this work, we explore the possibility of evolving (2+1) and (3+1)-dimensional wormhole spacetimes, conformally related to the respective static geometries, within the context of nonlinear electrodynamics. For the (3+1)-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Aaron V. B. Arellano , Francisco S. N. Lobo

A general class of solutions is obtained which describe a spherically symmetric wormhole system. The presence of arbitrary functions allows one to describe infinitely many wormhole systems of this type. The source of the stress-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. DeBenedictis , A. Das

We consider the self-collision of portals in classical general relativity. Portals are wormholes supported by a single loop of negative mass cosmic string, and being wormholes, portals have a nontrivial topology. Portals can be constructed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-15 Justin C. Feng , José P. S. Lemos , Richard A. Matzner

We discuss the possibility of constructing stable, static, spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat Lorentzian wormhole solutions in General Relativity coupled to a generalized Galileon field $\pi$. Assuming that Minkowski space-time is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 V. A. Rubakov

Renormalized vacuum expectation values of electromagnetic stress-energy tensor are calculated in the background spherically-symmetrical metric of the wormhole's topology. Covariant geodesic point separation method of regularization is used.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 V. Khatsymovsky

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

In this work, we explore the possibility that static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole geometries are supported by modified teleparallel gravity or f(T) gravity, where T is the torsion scalar. Considering the field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-16 Christian G. Boehmer , Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

This thesis operates within the framework of general relativity without curvature singularities. The motivation for this framework is explored, and several conclusions are drawn with a look towards future research. There are many ways to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-18 Alex Simpson

For static, spherically symmetric space-times in general relativity (GR), a no-go theorem is proved: it excludes the existence of wormholes with flat and/or AdS asymptotic regions on both sides of the throat if the source matter is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-03 K. A. Bronnikov , K. A. Baleevskikh , M. V. Skvortsova

We have recently discovered a smooth vacuum-wormhole solution of the first-order equations of general relativity. Here, we obtain the corresponding multiple-vacuum-wormhole solution. Assuming that our world is essentially Minkowski…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-10 F. R. Klinkhamer

This paper discusses a new wormhole solution that admits conformal motion, given a noncommutative-geometry background. After a discussion of the wormhole geometry and the energy conditions, the analysis proceeds with the calculation of the…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Farook Rahaman , Saibal Ray , G. S. Khadekar , P. K. F. Kuhfittig , Indrani Karar

In this work we study the local behavior of geodesics in the neighborhood of a curvature singularity contained in stationary and axially symmetric space-times. Apart from these properties, the metrics we shall focus on will also be required…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-08 Juan Carlos Del Águila , Tonatiuh Matos

We construct thin-shell electrically charged wormholes in d-dimensional general relativity with a cosmological constant. The wormholes constructed can have different throat geometries, namely, spherical, planar and hyperbolic. Unlike the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-05 Gonçalo A. S. Dias , José P. S. Lemos