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This paper addresses the following issues: (1) the possible existence of macroscopic traversable wormholes, given a noncommutative-geometry background, and (2) the possibility of allowing zero tidal forces, given a known density. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-09 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

We investigate traversable wormhole geometries in the framework of $F(T)$ gravity supplemented by a weak de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley (dRGT) massive term. Using the static and spherically symmetric Morris-Thorne metric, we derive the field and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Alexandre Landry , Yassine Sekhmani , Sunil K Maurya , Akram Ali , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

In this article, a new family of asymptotically flat wormhole solutions in the context of symmetric teleparallel gravity, i.e., $f(Q)$ theory of gravity, are presented. Considering a power-law shape function and some different forms for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-26 Sara Rastgoo , Foad Parsaei

This paper discusses the possible existence of traversable wormholes in f(R) modified gravity while assuming a noncommutative-geometry background, as well as zero tidal forces. The first part of the paper aims for an overview via several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-28 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

The `theoretical' existence of traversable Lorentzian wormholes in the classical, macroscopic world is plagued by the violation of the well--known energy conditions of General Relativity. In this brief article we show : (i) how the extent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sayan Kar , Naresh Dadhich , Matt Visser

We develop a number of novel "black-bounce" spacetimes. These are specific regular black holes where the "area radius" always remains non-zero, thereby leading to a "throat" that is either timelike (corresponding to a traversable wormhole),…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-05 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Manuel E. Rodrigues , Marcos V. de S. Silva , Alex Simpson , Matt Visser

For an arbitrary Tolman wormhole, unconstrained by symmetry, we shall define the bounce in terms of a three-dimensional edgeless achronal spacelike hypersurface of minimal volume. (Zero trace for the extrinsic curvature plus a "flare-out"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 David Hochberg , Carmen Molina-Paris , Matt Visser

This work investigates some feasible regions for the existence of traversable wormhole geometries in $f(R,G)$ gravity, where $R$ and $G$ represent the Ricci scalar and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant respectively. Three different matter contents…

General Physics · Physics 2018-11-12 M. Farasat Shamir , Saeeda Zia

In this work we demonstrate that wormholes can in principle be naturally created during the cosmological bounce without the need for the exotic matter or any kind of additional modifications of the gravitational sector, apart from the one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-07 Petar Pavlović , Marko Sossich

We construct traversable thin-shell wormholes in the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati theory with cylindrical symmetry applying the cut and paste procedure to a flat black string solution of the five-dimensional vacuum Einstein field equations. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-01 Martín G. Richarte

We investigate a new type of Schwarzschild wormhole, which relies on a 3-dimensional spacetime defect with degenerate metrics. This particular wormhole is a solution of the vacuum Einstein equations. We also study the generalized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-11 Zi-Liang Wang

We present a class of Lorentzian traversable wormholes in conformal gravity, constructed via Weyl rescaling of Minkowski spacetime. As a result, these wormholes are solutions of every theory of gravity that is both conformally invariant and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-19 Mariano Cadoni , Leonardo Modesto , Mirko Pitzalis , Andrea Pierfrancesco Sanna

This Letter aims to advance unexplored properties of a new class of Closed Timelike Curves recently discovered in scalar-tensor gravity, reported in Universe 9, 467 (2023) and Eur.$\,$Phys.$\,$J.$\,$C 83, 626 (2023). Therein, it was shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-26 Hoang Ky Nguyen , Francisco S. N. Lobo

It was shown by Ford and Roman in 1996 that quantum field theory severely constrains wormhole geometries on a macroscopic scale. The first part of this paper discusses a wide class of wormhole solutions that meet these constraints. The type…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

Non-commutativity is a key feature of spacetime geometry. The current article explores the traversable wormhole solutions in the framework of $f(R,L_m)$ gravity within non-commutative geometry. By using the Gaussian and Lorentzian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-10 N. S. Kavya , V. Venkatesha , G. Mustafa , P. K. Sahoo

We construct the asymptotically flat charged thin-shell wormholes of Lovelock gravity in seven dimensions by cut-and-paste technique, and apply the generalized junction conditions in order to calculate the energy-momentum tensor of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-10 M. H. Dehghani , M. R. Mehdizadeh

In this work, we investigate wormhole geometries within the framework of $f(R,\mathcal{L}_{m})$ gravity by considering a specific form of the model. From the corresponding field equations, the shape function is derived, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 A. S. Agrawal , Baljeet Kaur Lotte , Reshma Kapse , B. Mishra

Wormholes are speculative structures linking disparate space-time points. Their geometry can be obtained by solving Einstein equations with tolerating the violation of null energy conditions. Recently, many researchers have studied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-10 J. Sadeghi , B. Pourhassan , S. Noori Gashti , S. Upadhyay

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

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