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In this work we show the existence of traversable wormhole and time-machine solutions in a modified theory of gravity where matter and curvature are nonminimally coupled. Those solutions present a nontrivial redshift function and exist even…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-24 Orfeu Bertolami , Ricardo Zambujal Ferreira

The geometry of a spacetime containing a wormhole generated by a spherically symmetric electric field is investigated in detail. These solutions arise in high-energy extensions of General Relativity formulated within the Palatini approach…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-09 Gonzalo J. Olmo , D. Rubiera-Garcia , A. Sanchez-Puente

We consider the self-collision of portals in classical general relativity. Portals are wormholes supported by a single loop of negative mass cosmic string, and being wormholes, portals have a nontrivial topology. Portals can be constructed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-15 Justin C. Feng , José P. S. Lemos , Richard A. Matzner

In this study, we investigate traversable wormhole solutions within the setup of $f(R,\mathcal{L}_{m})$ gravity, a modified theory of gravity where the gravitational action relies upon the matter Lagrangian $\mathcal{L}_{m}$ and the Ricci…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-10 A. S. Agrawal , Sankarsan Tarai , B. Mishra , S. K. Tripathy

We investigate traversable wormhole solutions within the framework of $f(\mathscr{Q},\mathscr{L}_m)$ gravity, a symmetric teleparallel theory featuring non-minimal coupling between geometry and matter. Adopting a linear functional form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 K. Suhasini , G. Ravi Kiran , N. S. Kavya , C. S. Varsha , V. Venkatesha

This paper investigates the geometry of static traversable wormhole through Noether symmetry approach in $f(R)$ gravity. We take perfect fluid distribution and formulate symmetry generators with associated conserved quantities corresponding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 M. Sharif , Iqra Nawazish

Recently, a modified theory of gravity was presented, which consists of the superposition of the metric Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian with an $f(\cal R)$ term constructed \`{a} la Palatini. The theory possesses extremely interesting features…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-20 Salvatore Capozziello , Tiberiu Harko , Tomi S. Koivisto , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Gonzalo J. Olmo

In the homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann-Robertson-Walker minisuperspace model, it is known that there are no Euclidean wormhole solutions in the pure gravity system. Here it is demonstrated explicitly that in Taub cosmology, which is one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Hongsu Kim

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

In this work we demonstrate that wormholes can in principle be naturally created during the cosmological bounce without the need for the exotic matter or any kind of additional modifications of the gravitational sector, apart from the one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-07 Petar Pavlović , Marko Sossich

In this work, we investigate wormhole geometries with multiple throats and anti-throats in general relativity. The existence of these structures is identified through the analysis of minima and maxima in the area of the solution. Using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-09 T. M. Crispim , Marcos V. de S. Silva , G. Alencar , Celio R. Muniz , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

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

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

We explore the possibility of formation of a traversable wormhole in General Relativity supported by particle creation mechanism. The repulsive back-reaction pressure generated through this mechanism can be thought of as a source of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-23 Mrinnoy M. Gohain , Kalyan Bhuyan , Chayanika Chetia

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

Braneworld models were firstly proposed as a great alternative for the hierarcy problem of particle physics, by allowing gravitons, differently from the other interacting bosons, to propagate through an extradimensional space named bulk. As…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-24 Ayan Banerjee , P. H. R. S. Moraes , R. A. C. Correa , G. Ribeiro

We investigate a modified Einstein-Rosen wormhole model, made unidirectionally traversable through a bimetric geometry defined by two regular metrics, g(+) and g(-), and characterized by PT symmetry combining time reversal (t -> -t) and…

General Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Hicham Zejli

Traversable wormholes in General Relativity (GR) require exotic matter sources that violate the null energy condition (NEC), and such behavior may be avoided in modified gravity. Moreover, the concept of non-commutative geometry as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-18 Anshuman Baruah , Parangam Goswami , Atri Deshamukhya

In this work, we construct traversable wormhole geometries in the context of f(R) modified theories of gravity. We impose that the matter threading the wormhole satisfies the energy conditions, so that it is the effective stress-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-12 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Miguel A. Oliveira

In the present manuscript, we study traversable wormhole solutions in the background of extended symmetric teleparallel gravity with matter coupling. With the anisotropic matter distribution we probe the wormhole geometry for two different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 V. Venkatesha , Chaitra Chooda Chalavadi , N. S. Kavya , P. K. Sahoo