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We present a family of static and evolving spherically symmetric Lorentzian wormhole solutions in N+1 dimensional Einstein gravity. In general, for static wormholes, we require that at least the radial pressure has a barotropic equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-23 Mauricio Cataldo , Paola Meza , Paul Minning

In this work, we consider the possibility that wormhole geometries are sustained by their own quantum fluctuations, in the context of modified dispersion relations. More specifically, the energy density of the graviton one-loop contribution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-27 Remo Garattini , Francisco S. N. Lobo

In this work, we analyze the wormhole solutions in $f(R)$ gravity. Specifically we sought for wormhole geometry solutions for the following three shape functions: (i) $b(r)=r_{0}+\rho_{0}r_{0}^{3}\ln\left(\frac{r_{0}}{r}\right)$, (ii)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-22 B. Mishra , A. S. Agrawal , S. K. Tripathy , S. Ray

In this paper, exact asymptotically flat wormhole solutions in the context of symmetric teleparallel gravity, i.e., $f(Q)$ theory of gravity, are investigated. Since modified theories of gravity provide new field equations, we have analyzed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-08 Foad Parsaei , Sara Rastgoo , P. K. Sahoo

A fundamental ingredient in wormhole physics is the presence of exotic matter, which involves the violation of the null energy condition. Although a plethora of wormhole solutions have been explored in the literature, it is useful to find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-19 Francisco S. N. Lobo

Some novel regular spacetimes are considered that show a non-stationary wormhole structure. A Simpson-Visser-like procedure is applied to reconstruct these regular spacetimes, free of time-like and space-like singularities. Such a procedure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-13 G. Alencar , R. Dárlla , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

Morris \& Thorne \cite{morris1} proposed geometrical objects called traversable wormholes that act as bridges in connecting two spacetimes or two different points of the same spacetime. The geometrical properties of these wormholes depend…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-17 Nisha Godani , Gauranga C. Samanta

This research work provides an exhaustive investigation of the viability of different coupled wormhole (WH) geometries with the relativistic matter configurations in the $f(R,G,T)$ extended gravity framework. We consider a specific model in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-01 M. Ilyas , A. R. Athar , Fawad Khan , Nasreen Ghafoor , Haifa I. Alrebdi , Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar , Abdel-Haleem Abdel-Aty

Three new classes (II-IV) of solutions of the vacuum low energy effective string theory in four dimensions are derived. Wormhole solutions are investigated in those solutions including the class I case both in the Einstein and in the Jordan…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 K. K. Nandi , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

Alternative gravity is nowadays an extremely important tool to address some persistent observational issues, such as the dark sector of the universe. They can also be applied to stellar astrophysics, leading to outcomes one step ahead of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-15 P. H. R. S. Moraes , P. K. Sahoo

Motivated by recent proposals of possible wormhole existence in galactic halos, we analyse the cosmological evolution of wormhole solutions in modified $f(R)$ gravity. We construct a dynamical wormhole that asymptotically approaches FLRW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-24 Sebastian Bahamonde , Mubasher Jamil , Petar Pavlovic , Marko Sossich

We present the first analysis of traversable wormhole solutions within the framework of Einstein-aether theory. We show that the corresponding field equations admit three distinct wormhole geometries, obtained by adopting three different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Hanif Golchin , Hamid R. Bakhtiarizadeh , Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh

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

This study discusses the development of some particular static wormhole models in the background of an extended $f(Q)$ gravity theory. Wormhole solutions are derived by considering the radial pressure to admit an equation of state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Tanmoy Chowdhury , Prabir Rudra , Tandrima Chowdhury , Farook Rahaman

In this work, we investigate wormhole geometries within the framework of $f(R,\mathcal{L}_{m})$ gravity by considering a specific form of the model. From the corresponding field equations, the shape function is derived, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 A. S. Agrawal , Baljeet Kaur Lotte , Reshma Kapse , B. Mishra

The primary objective of this article is to study the energy condition bounds for spherical and hyperbolic wormholes in well-known $f(R,T)$ theory of gravity. For this purpose, we formulate the field equations for spherically and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-19 M. Zubair , Quratulien Muneer , Saira Waheed

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

Following the recent theory of $f(Q)$ gravity, we continue to investigate the possible existence of wormhole geometries, where $Q$ is the non-metricity scalar. Recently, the non-metricity scalar and the corresponding field equations have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-08 Ayan Banerjee , Anirudh Pradhan , Takol Tangphati , Farook Rahaman

Wormhole configurations in Einstein's general theory of relativity (GR) require exotic matter sources violating the weak energy condition (WEC). Rastall's theory is a generalization of GR in its matter source considering a nonconserved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-19 Yaghoub Heydarzade , Maryam Ranjbar

We have found a simple exact solution of spherically-symmetrical Einstein equations describing a wormhole for an inhomogeneous distribution of the phantom energy. The equation of state is linear but highly anisotropic: while the radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 O. B. Zaslavskii