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We review recent works on the possibility for eternal existence of thin-shell wormholes on Einstein and Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We introduce thin-shell wormholes that are categorized into a class of traversable wormhole solutions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-02 Takafumi Kokubu , Tomohiro Harada

The problem of the electrostatics in conical wormholes is revisited, now improving the background geometries with asymptotical flatness. The electric self-force on a point charge placed at different regions in the spacetime of a conical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-17 E. Rubín de Celis , C. Simeone

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

In continuation of a preceding work on introducing asymmetric thin-shell wormholes as an emerging class of traversable wormholes within the context, this time cylindrically symmetric spacetimes are exploited to construct such wormholes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-06 S. Danial Forghani , S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

We construct higher dimensional Euclidean AdS wormhole solutions that reproduce the statistical description of the correlation functions of an ensemble of heavy CFT operators. We consider an operator which effectively backreacts on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Martin Sasieta

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

The AdS/CFT correspondence relates quantum entanglement between boundary Conformal Field Theories and geometric connections in the dual asymptotically Anti-de Sitter space-time. We consider entangled states in the n-fold tensor product of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-05 Vijay Balasubramanian , Patrick Hayden , Alexander Maloney , Donald Marolf , Simon F. Ross

Motivated by the limited understanding of entanglement entropy in non-asymptotically AdS spacetimes, we develop a framework in which a circular string is embedded as a quantum probe in a spherically symmetric curved spacetime, and its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Ai-chen Li , Xin-Fei Li , Xuanting Ji

We construct new configurations of oppositely charged, static black hole pairs (diholes) in four dimensions which are solutions of low energy string/M-theory. The black holes are extremal and have four different charges. We also consider…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-28 Auttakit Chattaraputi , Roberto Emparan , Anne Taormina

In this paper we discuss the blackhole-string transition of the small Schwarzschild blackhole of $AdS_5 \times S^5$ using the AdS/CFT correspondence at finite temperature. The finite temperature gauge theory effective action, at weak {\it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Luis Alvarez-Gaume , Pallab Basu , Marcos Marino , Spenta R. Wadia

Applying the Darmois-Israel thin shell formalism, we construct static and dynamic thin shells around traversable wormholes. Firstly, by applying the cut-and-paste technique we apply a linearized stability analysis to thin-shell wormholes in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Francisco S. N. Lobo

I provide multiple examples of conformal field theories (CFTs) on the worldsheet that describe string propagation in target space wormholes connecting two disjoint asymptotic manifolds. The worldsheet approach goes beyond the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-26 Yoav Zigdon

We construct a broad family of thin-shell wormholes with circular symmetry in (2+1)-dimensional F(R) theories of gravity, with constant scalar curvature R. We study the stability of the static configurations under perturbations preserving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-05 Cecilia Bejarano , Ernesto F. Eiroa , Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre

Small black holes potentially created by the Large Hadron Collider could typically carry color charges inherited from their parton progenitors. The dynamics of quarks near such a black hole depends on the curved spacetime geometry as well…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 MD Razikul Islam , Justin F. Vazquez-Poritz

We construct a new type of thin-shell wormhole for non-asymptotically flat charged black holes in generalized dilaton-axion gravity inspired by low-energy string theory using cut-and-paste technique. We have shown that this thin shell…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Ayan Banerjee , Farook Rahaman , Surajit Chattopadhyay , Sumita Banerjee

The self-interaction for a static point charge in the space-time of a thin-shell wormhole constructed connecting two identical Schwarzschild geometries is calculated in a series expansion. The electrostatic self-force is evaluated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 E. Rubín de Celis , O. P. Santillán , C. Simeone

In this work, we employ the Darmois-Israel thin-shell formalism to construct both static and dynamic thin-shell configurations surrounding traversable wormholes. Initially, using the cut-and-paste technique, we perform a linearized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-26 Francisco S. N. Lobo

We attempt to construct eternal traversable wormholes connecting two asymptotically AdS regions by introducing a static coupling between their dual CFTs. We prove that there are no semiclassical traversable wormholes with Poincar\'e…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-25 Ben Freivogel , Victor Godet , Edward Morvan , Juan F. Pedraza , Antonio Rotundo

We construct stationary Ricci-flat inter-universe Lorentzian wormhole solutions in all D\ge 5 dimensions that connect two flat asymptotic spacetimes. Such a solution can be viewed as the gravity dual of a string tachyon state whose linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Lu , Jianwei Mei

Some of the simplest wormhole solutions involve massless scalar fields that take imaginary values. Massless fields can be interpreted as coupling constants in asymptotically flat or asymptotically AdS gravity theories. We argue that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Juan Maldacena , Alexander Maloney , Brian McPeak