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We study the geometry of a wormhole spacetime filled with anisotropic matter in the context of general relativity. In the course of the study, new static and spherically symmetric solutions, analytic and numerical ones, are found. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Youngone Lee

Exact solutions of traversable wormholes are found under the assumption of spherical symmetry and the existence of a {\it non-static} conformal symmetry, which presents a more systematic approach in searching for exact wormhole solutions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian G. Boehmer , Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We review a new traversable-wormhole solution of the gravitational field equation of general relativity without exotic matter. Instead of having exotic matter to keep the wormhole throat open, the solution relies on a 3-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-25 Frans R. Klinkhamer

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

In this paper we study traversable wormholes in the context of $f(R)$ gravity. Exact solutions of traversable wormholes are found by imposing the nonconstant Ricci scalar. These solutions asymptotically match spherical, flat and hyperbolic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-23 Hanif Golchin , Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh

We construct wormholes in Einstein-vector-Gauss-Bonnet theory where a real massless vector field is coupled to the higher curvature Gauss-Bonnet invariant. We consider three coupling functions which depend on the square of the vector field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-28 Simon Barton , Claus Kiefer , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

We obtain a family of regular static, spherically symmetric solutions in Einstein--Cartan theory with an electromagnetic field and a nonminimally coupled scalar field with the correct sign of kinetic energy density. At different values of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 K. A. Bronnikov , A. M. Galiakhmetov

This brief review discusses the existence conditions of wormhole throats and wormholes as global configurations in general relativity under the assumptions of cylindrical and axial symmetries. It is pointed out, in particular, that wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-07 K. A. Bronnikov , M. V. Skvortsova

We present a static, spherically symmetric, traversable wormhole solution to multimetric gravity which is sustained by only non-exotic matter, i.e., matter which satisfies all energy conditions. The possibility of this solution arises from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-11 Manuel Hohmann

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 obtain new $d$-dimensional and asymptotically flat wormhole solutions by assuming a specific form of the energy density distribution. This is addressed by considering the generalization of the so-called Dymnikova model,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 Milko Estrada , Celio R. Muniz

The presence of exotic matter for the existence of the wormhole geometry has been an unavoidable problem in GR. In recent studies researchers have tried to deal with this issue using modified gravity theories where the WH geometry is…

General Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Umesh Kumar Sharma , Shweta , Ambuj Kumar Mishra

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 construct static, spherically symmetric, charged traversable wormhole solutions to the Einstein--Maxwell equations, supported by bidirectional (ingoing and outgoing) null dust with negative energy, and discuss a scenario for their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Yasutaka Koga , Ryota Maeda , Daiki Saito , Keiya Uemichi , Daisuke Yoshida

In this paper, we study the spherically symmetric Dirac star model in the presence of a phantom field, obtaining a traversable wormhole solution in non-trivial topological spacetime. This solution exhibits asymmetry in both the field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-29 Chen-Hao Hao , Shi-Xian Sun , Long-Xing Huang , Rong Zhang , Xin Su , Yong-Qiang Wang

In this work we explore the possible existence of static, spherically symmetric and stationary, axisymmetric traversable wormholes coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics. Considering static and spherically symmetric (2+1) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Aaron V. B. Arellano , Francisco S. N. Lobo

In this work, we investigate static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole solutions within the framework of the extended symmetric teleparallel gravity, specifically the $\mathcal{F}(Q,\mathcal{L}_{m},\mathcal{T})$ gravity theory,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Rounak Manna , Krishna Pada Das , Ujjal Debnath

The well-known problem of wormholes in general relativity (GR) is the necessity of exotic matter, violating the Weak Energy Condition (WEC), for their support. This problem looks easier if, instead of island-like configurations, one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 K. A. Bronnikov , S. V. Bolokhov , M. V. Skvortsova

We find a new exact solution to Einstein field equations that represents a cosmological wormhole embedded in a flat Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker universe. The new metric is a generalization of a previous cosmological wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-14 Daniela Pérez , Mário Raia Neto

In this short review we present some recently obtained traversable wormhole models in the framework of general relativity (GR) in four and six dimensions that somehow widen our common ideas on wormhole existence and properties. These are,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-23 K. A. Bronnikov