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The solutions of traversable wormholes and their geometries are investigated in higher-curvature gravity with boundary terms for each case under the presence of anisotropic, isotropic and barotropic fluids in detail. For each case, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-03 M. Ilyas , Kazuharu Bamba

Wormholes are hypothetical topologically-non-trivial structures of the spacetime. From the theoretical point of view, the possibility of their existence is challenging but cannot be ruled out. This article is a compact and non-exhaustive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 Cosimo Bambi , Dejan Stojkovic

The Brouwer fixed point theorem says that any continuous function from disc to itself has a fixed point. By using simple geometrical technique we have generalized the result in manifold and proved that any continuous function on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Absos Ali Shaikh , Chandan Kumar Mondal

It is investigated in what sense the Brouwer fixed point theorem may be viewed as a corollary of the Lawvere fixed point theorem. A suitable generalisation of the Lawvere fixed point theorem is found and a means is identified by which the…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Rupert McCallum

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

We consider rotating wormhole solutions in general relativity supported by a complex non-phantom spinor field (which provides a nontrivial spacetime topology) and electromagnetic fields. The solutions are asymmetric, regular, asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev

In [J. Blazquez-Salcedo, C. Knoll, E. Radu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126 (2021) no.10, 101102] asymptotically flat traversable wormhole solutions were obtained in the Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theory without using phantom matter. The normalizable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-07 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

This work is devoted to the study of analytic wormhole solutions within the framework of $f(R)$ gravity theory. To check the possibility of having wormhole structures satisfying energy conditions, by means of the class I approach the pair…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-09 A. S. Agrawal , B. Mishra , Francisco Tello-Ortiz , A. Alvarez

A fundamental property in wormhole physics is the flaring-out condition of the throat, which through the Einstein field equation entails the violation of the null energy condition. In the context of modified theories of gravity, it has also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-07 Francisco S. N. Lobo

The Brouwer fixed point theorem states that the disk $D^n$ has the fixed point property. More generally, by the Lefschetz fixed point theorem any compact ANR with trivial rational homology has the fixed point property. In this note we prove…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-07-09 Jonathan Ariel Barmak

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

It was argued in literature that traversable wormholes can exist with arbitrarily small violation of null energy conditions. We show that if the amount of exotic material near the wormhole throat tends to zero, either this leads to a horn…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 O. B. Zaslavskii

We combine Homotopy Type Theory with axiomatic cohesion, expressing the latter internally with a version of "adjoint logic" in which the discretization and codiscretization modalities are characterized using a judgmental formalism of "crisp…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Michael Shulman

We formulate the traversability of wormhole throats as a local and covariant null defocusing condition derived from the Raychaudhuri equation. Since unimodular gravity preserves the local geometric structure of spacetime, the null focusing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-03 Erick Pastén , Marco Bosquez , Norman Cruz

Brouwer's fixed point theorem states that any continuous function from a closed $n$-dimensional ball to itself has a fixed point. In 1961, Klee showed that if such a function has discontinuities that are bounded, then it has a point that is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Henry Adams , Florian Frick

We examine the compatibility of the mirror matter concept with the non-orientable wormholes. If any particle (or classical object) is traversing through the non-orientable wormhole, it turns into a corresponding mirror particle and vice…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-04 V. I. Dokuchaev , Yu. N. Eroshenko

A basic constraint to be satisfied by Brans class I solution for being a traversible wormhole is derived. It is argued that the solution could be a wormhole analogue of the Horowitz-Ross naked black hole. It is further demonstrated that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-25 Amrita Bhattacharya , Ilnur Nigmatzyanov , Ramil Izmailov , Kamal K. Nandi

We show that if an orientation-preserving homeomorphism of the plane has a topologically chain recurrent point, then it has a fixed point, generalizing the Brouwer plane translation theorem.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Jim Wiseman

For a generic $f(R)$ which admits a polynomial expansion of at least third order (i.e. $\frac{d^{3}f}{dR^{3}}\neq 0$) we find the near-throat wormhole solution. Necessary conditions for the existence of wormholes in such $f(R)$ theories are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

Traversable wormholes (TWHs) remain one of the most intriguing predictions of General Relativity (GR), offering passage through space-time. However, their existence requires the violation of the null energy condition, making their detection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-18 Subenoy Chakraborty , Madhukrishna Chakraborty