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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

The force free approximation is often useful when describing tenuous plasmas in strong cosmic magnetic fields. Time evolution of any such system is governed by the information that can be transported along the characteristics of the plasma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Brian Punsly

We study the scattering of low-energy massless and massive minimally coupled scalar fields by an asymptotically flat traversable wormhole. We provide a comprehensive treatment of this problem offering analytic expressions for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-30 Bahareh Azad , Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

Force-free electrodynamics is the theoretical paradigm used to describe electromagnetic fields in a region where the inertia of plasma is negligible compared to the strength of the electromagnetic field. While these fields are studied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-18 Rakshak Adhikari , Govind Menon , Mikhail V. Medvedev

In spite of their speculative nature, traversable wormholes are a topic of interest that started with the Einstein-Rosen bridge in 1935 and became a major research area with the introduction of the Morris-Thorne wormhole in 1988. It is also…

General Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

We investigate possible manifolds characterizing traversable wormholes in the presence of a scalar field minimally coupled to gravity, which has both kinetic and potential energy. The feature of traversability requires the violation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-31 R. Garattini , A. G. Tzikas

We present a wormhole solution in four dimensions. It is a solution of an Einstein Maxwell theory plus charged massless fermions. The fermions give rise to a negative Casimir-like energy, which makes the wormhole possible. It is a long…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-05 Juan Maldacena , Alexey Milekhin , Fedor Popov

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

Plasma-filled magnetospheres can extract energy from a spinning black hole and provide the power source for a variety of observed astrophysical phenomena. These magnetospheres are described by the highly nonlinear equations of force-free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Alexandru Lupsasca , Maria J. Rodriguez , Andrew Strominger

The massless conformally coupled scalar field is characterized by the so-called "new improved stress-energy tensor", which is capable of classically violating the null energy condition. When coupled to Einstein gravity we find a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlos Barcelo , Matt Visser

We reformulate the construction of wormhole solutions as perturbations around near-horizon geometries of near-extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black holes in four dimensions and equal-angular-momenta Myers-Perry black holes in five…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Takamasa Kanai , Kengo Maeda , Daisuke Yoshida

Solving the Einstein-Klein-Gordon-Maxwell system, we construct and analyze the properties of an electrically charged wormhole, formed from a complex, massive scalar field, with self-interaction, and endowed with an electric charge. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-18 Víctor Jaramillo , Mariana Lira , Daniel Martínez-Carbajal , Darío Núñez

We present the simplest topological classification of wormholes and demonstrate that in open Friedmann models the genus $n\geq 1$ wormholes are stable and do not require the presence of exotic forms of matter, or any modification of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-09 A. A. Kirillov E. P. Savelova

A new class of traversable wormholes was recently constructed which relies only on local bulk dynamics rather than an explicit coupling between distinct boundaries. Here we begin with a four-dimensional Weyl fermion field of any mass $m$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-15 Donald Marolf , Sean McBride

We construct explicit examples of globally regular static, spherically symmetric solutions in general relativity with scalar and electromagnetic fields describing traversable wormholes with flat and AdS asymptotics and regular black holes,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-07 K. A. Bronnikov , P. A. Korolyov

Analytical solutions to force-free electrodynamics around black holes are fundamental for building simple models of accretion disk and jet dynamics. We present a (nonexhaustive) classification of complex highest-weight solutions to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-15 G. Compère , R. Oliveri

We present and investigate charged wormhole solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations supported by anisotropic matter fields, with the purpose of establishing their physical plausibility as traversable wormholes. To this end, we examine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-13 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Sung-Won Kim , Bum-Hoon Lee , Wonwoo Lee

The ability of a plasma surrounding spinning black holes to extract rotational energy and power energetic emissions has been recognized as a key astrophysical phenomenon. Important insights into the nature of this process are obtained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-30 Fan Zhang , Huan Yang , Luis Lehner

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

We obtain a large class of Lorentzian wormhole spacetimes in scalar-tensor gravity, for which the matter stress energy does satisfy the weak energy condition. Our constructions have zero Ricci scalar and an everywhere finite, non-zero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-12 Rajibul Shaikh , Sayan Kar
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