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To date, many exotic predictions of Einstein's equations have been corroborated, with one exception: wormholes (WHs). In this work, we analyse a new exact solution combination to the Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton or Phantom equations, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-18 Leonel Bixano , Tonatiuh Matos

While wormholes are just as good a prediction of Einstein's theory as black holes, they are subject to severe restrictions from quantum field theory. To allow for the possibility of interstellar travel, a macroscopic wormhole would need to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-25 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

We investigate traversable wormhole solutions in four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity sourced by a smoothed string fluid. Originally proposed to model regular black holes, this energy density profile is adapted here to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-19 C. R. Muniz , M. S. Cunha , L. C. N. Santos

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

In this paper, we evaluate traversable wormhole solutions through Karmarkar condition in $f(R,T)$ theory, where $T$ is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor and $R$ represents the Ricci scalar. We develop a wormhole shape function for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-06 M. Sharif , Arooj Fatima

This research delves into the potential existence of traversable wormholes (WHs) within the framework of modified, curvature based gravity. The modification includes linear perturbations of the matter Lagrangian and the trace of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-02 Niklas Loewer , Moreshwar Tayde , P. K. Sahoo

The analytic solution of the general relativity equations for spherically symmetric wormholes are given. We investigate the special case of a "traversable" wormhole i.e., one allowing the signal to pass through it. The energy-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexander Shatskiy , I. D. Novikov , N. S. Kardashev

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

This study aims to investigate the viability of a viable logarithmic f(R) gravity for inflation in giving wormhole solutions. We consider a static and spherically symmetric spacetime and two different shape functions. We found that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-27 Yusmantoro , Rian Julianto

Vacuum spherically symmetric loop quantum gravity in the midi-superspace approximation using inhomogeneous horizon-penetrating slices has been studied for a decade, and it has been noted that the singularity is eliminated. It is replaced by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-20 Rodolfo Gambini , Javier Olmedo , Jorge Pullin

Motivated by recent proposals of possible wormhole existence in galactic halos, we analyse the cosmological evolution of wormhole solutions in modified $f(R)$ gravity. We construct a dynamical wormhole that asymptotically approaches FLRW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-24 Sebastian Bahamonde , Mubasher Jamil , Petar Pavlovic , Marko Sossich

This paper investigates static wormhole solutions through Noether symmetry approach in the context of energy-momentum squared gravity. This newly developed proposal resolves the singularity of big-bang and yields feasible cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-12 M. Sharif , M. Zeeshan Gul

We present a new class of solutions for static spherically symmetric wormhole spacetimes in conformal gravity and outline a detailed method for their construction. As an explicit example, we construct a class of traversable and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-09 Manuel Hohmann , Christian Pfeifer , Martti Raidal , Hardi Veermäe

Bubble universes and traversable wormholes in general relativity can be realized as two sides of the same concept. To exemplify, we find, display, and study in a unified manner a Minkowski-Minkowski closed universe and a Minkowski-Minkowski…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-20 José P. S. Lemos , Paulo Luz

A wormhole is constructed by cutting and joining two spacetimes satisfying the low energy string equations with a dilaton field. In spacetimes described by the "string metric" the dilaton energy-momentum tensor need not satisfy the weak or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Dan N. Vollick

This paper explores static wormhole solutions in f(Q,T) theory, where Q is the non-metricity and T is the trace of energy-momentum tensor. We derive the field equations that describe gravitational phenomena in the existence of non-metricity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-07 M. Zeeshan Gul , M. Sharif , Shajee Shahid , Faisal Javed

We formulate a one-parameter extension of Weyl transformations in first-order gravity and show that it defines a conformally coupled scalar sector with dynamical torsion. The construction reduces to the standard torsionless conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Luis Avilés , Omar Valdivia , Rodolfo Véliz , Carlos Vera

We consider three-dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant coupled to a large number of light matter fields dual to relevant operators. By imposing suitable boundary conditions on the matter fields we find eternal traversable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-28 William Harvey , Kristan Jensen

Wormholes are hypothetical tunnels that connect remote parts of spacetime. In General Relativity, wormholes are threaded by exotic matter that violates the energy conditions. In this work, we consider wormholes threaded by nonexotic matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-26 Rui-Hui Lin , Zhen-Yuan Wu , Xiang-Hua Zhai

We investigate Euclidean wormholes in Einstein gravity with a massless scalar field in de Sitter space. Euclidean wormholes are possible due to the analytic continuation of the time as well as complexification of fields, where we need to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-05 Pisin Chen , Yao-Chieh Hu , Dong-han Yeom