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We consider a scalar field with a negative kinetic term minimally coupled to gravity. We obtain an exact non-static spherically symmetric solution which describes a wormhole in cosmological setting. The wormhole is shown to connect two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 S. V. Sushkov , S. -W. Kim

The Schwarzschild-Melvin spacetime is an exact solution of the Einstein electrovacuum equations describing a black hole immersed in a magnetic field which is asymptotically aligned with the z-axis. It plays an important role in our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-09 Vitor Cardoso , José Natário

We construct higher-dimensional traversable wormholes in quasi-topological gravity (QTG) supported by a phantom scalar field. Using a static, spherically symmetric ansatz, we numerically analyze how quasi-topological gravity corrections…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-03 Gen Li , Yong-Qiang Wang

We use static solutions of 5-dimensional Kaluza-Klein gravity to generate several classes of static, spherically symmetric spacetimes which are analytic solutions to the equation $^{(4)}R = 0$, where $^{(4)}R$ is the four-dimensional Ricci…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-18 J. Ponce de Leon

We discuss $(n+1)$-dimensional dynamical wormholes in an evolving cosmological background with a throat expanding with time. These solutions are examined in the general relativity framework. A linear relation between diagonal elements of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 E. Ebrahimi , N. Riazi

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

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 investigate the waveforms and quasi-normal modes around Schwarzschild traversable wormholes under different field perturbations, including the scalar field, the electromagnetic (vector) field, and the axial gravitational (tensor) field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Hao Yang , Zhong-Wu Xia , Yan-Gang Miao

We construct examples of static, spherically symmetric wormhole solutions in general relativity with a minimally coupled scalar field $\phi$ whose kinetic energy is negative in a restricted region of space near the throat (of arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Kirill A. Bronnikov , Sergey V. Sushkov

We argue that a spherically symmetric traversable wormhole solution of the Einstein field equations can be supported by minimally coupled self-interacting scalar field which allows a spontaneous symmetry breaking of the field around the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 Soumya Chakrabarti , Chiranjeeb Singha

We present an analog quantum simulator of spacetimes containing traversable wormholes. A suitable spatial dependence in the external bias of a dc-SQUID array mimics the propagation of light in a 1D wormhole background. The impedance of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 Carlos Sabín

The self-force of the electromagnetic charge in the space-time of a wormhole with an infinitely short throat is calculated. It is assumed that the charge is a source of an electromagnetic field that is in non-minimal connection with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-13 O. Aslan , A. Popov

A new solution has been presented for the spherically symmetric space time describing wormholes with Phantom Energy. The model suggests that the existence of wormhole is supported by arbitrarily small quantity of Phantom Energy.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Rahaman , M. Kalam , M. Sarker , K. Gayen

In this paper we derive new static phantom traversable wormholes by assuming a shape function with a quadratic dependence on the radial coordinate r. We mainly focus our study on wormholes sustained by exotic matter with positive energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Mauricio Cataldo , Fabian Orellana

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

The metric of some Lorentzian wormholes in the background of the FRW universe is obtained. It is shown that for a de Sitter space-time the new solution is supported by Phantom Energy. The wave equation for a scalar field in such backgrounds…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Behrouz Mirza , Mehdi Eshaghi , Shahram Dehdashti

We discuss rotating wormholes in general relativity with a scalar field with negative kinetic energy. To solve the problem, we use the assumption about slow rotation. The role of a small dimensionless parameter plays the ratio of the linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. E. Kashargin , S. V. Sushkov

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

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-20 S. V. Bolokhov , K. A. Bronnikov , M. V. Skvortsova

This Letter aims to advance unexplored properties of a new class of Closed Timelike Curves recently discovered in scalar-tensor gravity, reported in Universe 9, 467 (2023) and Eur.$\,$Phys.$\,$J.$\,$C 83, 626 (2023). Therein, it was shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-26 Hoang Ky Nguyen , Francisco S. N. Lobo

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