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We study the possible existence of static traversable wormholes without invoking exotic matter in the framework of the Einstein--Cartan theory. A family of exact static, spherically symmetric wormhole solutions with an arbitrary throat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 K. A. Bronnikov , A. M. Galiakhmetov

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 dynamics of small perturbations around sphaleron and black hole solutions in the Einstein-Yang-Mills theory for the gauge group $SU(2)$ is investigated. The perturbations can be split into the two independent sectors in accordance with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Mikhail S. Volkov

A traversable wormhole generally violates the averaged null energy condition, usually requiring exotic matter. Recently, it has been found that the traversable wormhole can be realized by non-exotic matter in Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-06 Hua-Chao Liu , Rong-Xin Miao

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

We consider stationary, cylindrically symmetric configurations in general relativity and formulate necessary conditions for the existence of rotating cylindrical wormholes. It is shown that in a comoving reference frame the rotational part…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-12 Kirill A. Bronnikov , Vladimir G. Krechet , José P. S. Lemos

A spherically symmetric wormhole in Newtonian gravitation in curved space, enhanced with a connection between the mass density and the Ricci scalar, is presented. The wormhole, consisting of two connected asymptotically flat regions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-23 Paulo Luz , José P. S. Lemos

We obtain a large class of smooth Lorentzian p-brane wormholes in supergravities in various dimensions. They connect two asymptotically flat spacetimes. In cases where there is no dilaton involved in the solution, the wormhole can connect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-14 A. Bergman , H. Lu , Jianwei Mei , C. N. Pope

Charged Dirac fields minimally coupled to gravity have spherically symmetric wormhole solutions known as Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell (EDM) wormholes. EDM wormholes do not make use of exotic matter and exist in asymptotically flat general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-11 Ben Kain

Wormholes are considered both from the Wheeler deWitt equation, as well as from the field equations in the Euclidean background of Roberson Walker mini-superspace in $R^2$ gravity. Quantum wormhole satisfies Hawking Page wormhole boundary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-11 B Modak , Gargi Biswas

We construct a large family of Euclidean supersymmetric wormhole solutions of type IIB supergravity which are asymptotically AdS$_5 \times S^5$. The solutions are constructed using consistent truncation to maximally gauged supergravity in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-07 Davide Astesiano , Fridrik Freyr Gautason

Spacetime wormholes are evidently an essential component of the construction of a time machine. Within the context of general relativity, such objects require, for their formation, exotic matter -- matter that violates at least one of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-13 Mengqi Lu , Jiayue Yang , Robert B. Mann

We investigate the connection between spacetime wormholes and ensemble averaging in the context of higher spin AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$. Using techniques from modular bootstrap combined with some holographic inputs, we evaluate the partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-08 Diptarka Das , Shouvik Datta

The existing solutions to the Einstein equations describing rotating cylindrical wormholes are not asymptotically flat and therefore cannot describe wormhole entrances as local objects in our Universe. To overcome this difficulty, flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 K. A. Bronnikov

Within general relativity, we study spherically symmetric configurations with wormhole topology consisting of spinor fields and a Maxwell electric field. For such a system, we construct complete families of regular asymmetric solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev , Nurzada Beissen , Adilet Nurmukhamedov

We have investigated the problem of traversability of wormholes in the framework of quantum improvement of gravity theory arising from functional renormalization group methods to describe the asymptotic safe quantum gravity. We have shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-14 R. Moti , A. Shojai

In this paper, we construct Euclidean instanton and wormhole solutions in $d=4$, N=2 supergravity theories with hypermultiplets. The analytic continuation of the hypermultiplet action, involving pseudoscalar axions, is discussed using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-29 Marco Chiodaroli , Michael Gutperle

This study explores asymptotically flat wormhole solutions in $f(Q,T)=\alpha Q+ \beta T$ gravity, expanding upon our prior work (arXiv:2602.00527v1) with matter Lagrangian density, $L_m=-P$ . Here, we examine the implications of employing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 Sodabe Nasirimoghadam , Foad Parsaei , Sara Rastgoo

We study four dimensional gravity with a negative cosmological constant deformed by the Nieh-Yan torsional topological invariant with a spacetime-dependent coefficient. We find an exact solution of the Euclidean system, which we call the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-27 Robert G. Leigh , Nam N. Hoang , Anastasios C. Petkou

It is shown that the existence of static, cylindrically symmetric wormholes does not require violation of the weak or null energy conditions near the throat, and cylindrically symmetric wormhole geometries can appear with less exotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-30 Kirill A. Bronnikov , José P. S. Lemos