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Evidence to the case that classical gravitation provides the clue to make sense out of quantum gravity is presented. The key observation is the existence in classical gravitation of child universe solutions or "almost" solutions, "almost"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 E. I. Guendelman

We analyse a variety of Euclidean saddles in the gravitational path integral, with asymptotic AdS boundary conditions, in a class of Einstein-Scalar-Maxwell models. These include single boundary solutions, usual and wineglass wormholes, as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-21 Panos Betzios , Paul Ghiringhelli , Ioannis D. Gialamas , Olga Papadoulaki

The intrinsic non-perturbative features of string-theoretic corrections, particularly those arising from T-duality, have been shown to naturally introduce an effective ultraviolet (UV) cutoff into the gravitational framework. This cutoff,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-29 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Manuel E. Rodrigues

Wormhole solutions in gravitational theories typically require exotic matter. Here we present a wormhole solution to the field equations of Einsteinian Cubic Gravity -- a phenomenological competitor to general relativity that includes terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-04 Mengqi Lu , Jiayue Yang , Robert B. Mann

In this paper, we explore wormhole solutions in a higher-derivative theory of gravity where the action depends not only on the Ricci scalar \(R\), but also on its d'Alembertian, \(\Box R\). Such \(f(R,\Box R)\) models are motivated by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 M Daniel Ranjan , Soumya Chakrabarti , Sanjit Das

We investigate a nucleation of a Euclidean wormhole and its analytic continuation to Lorentzian signatures in Gauss-Bonnet-dilaton gravity, where this model can be embedded by the type-II superstring theory. We show that there exists a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-18 Gansukh Tumurtushaa , Dong-han Yeom

We study the process of quantum tunnelling in self-interacting scalar field theories with non-minimal coupling to gravity. In these theories gravitational instantons can develop a neck -- a feature prohibited in theories with minimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 Lorenzo Battarra , George Lavrelashvili , Jean-Luc Lehners

In this brief note, we reconsider the problem of finding Euclidean wormhole solutions to maximal supergravity in d dimensions. We find that such solutions exists for all d less than or equal to 9. However, we argue that, in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-07-24 Aaron Bergman , Jacques Distler

In this paper, the gravitational deflection of relativistic massive particles up to the second post-Minkowskian order by static and spherically symmetric wormholes is investigated in the weak-field limit. These wormholes include the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-05 Zonghai Li , Guansheng He , Tao Zhou

There are explored off-diagonal deformations of "prime" metrics in Einstein gravity (for instance, for wormhole configurations) into "target" exact solutions in f(R,T)-modified and massive/ bi-metric gravity theories. The new classes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-25 Sergiu I. Vacaru

It has long been known that the coarse-grained approximation to the black hole density of states can be computed using classical Euclidean gravity. In this work we argue for another entry in the dictionary between Euclidean gravity and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Jordan Cotler , Kristan Jensen

We investigate charged black holes coupled to a massive dilaton. It is shown that black holes which are large compared to the Compton wavelength of the dilaton resemble the Reissner-Nordstr\"om solution, while those which are smaller than…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Horne , G. Horowitz

There exists a widely spread notion that gravitational effects can strongly violate global symmetries. It may lead to many important consequences. We will argue, in particular, that nonperturbative gravitational effects in the axion theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde , Dmitri Linde , Leonard Susskind

Wormholes are one of the most interesting topological features in spacetime, offering a rat run between two vastly separated regions of the universe. In this paper, we study the deflection angle of light by wormholes, which are supported by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Kimet Jusufi , Ali Övgün , Ayan Banerjee , İzzet Sakallı

In this research, we examine relativistic fermions within the rotating frame of negative curvature wormholes. Initially, as is typical in our context, we introduce the wormholes by embedding a curved surface into a higher dimensional flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 Abdullah Guvendi , Semra Gurtas Dogan , R. L. L. Vitoria

This paper is devoted to an investigation of Euclidean wormholes made by fuzzy instantons. We investigate the Euclidean path integral in anti-de Sitter space. In Einstein gravity, we introduce a scalar field with a potential. Because of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-19 Subeom Kang , Dong-han Yeom

The gravitational path integral can compute inner products between different states of open and closed universes. To have a well-defined Hilbert space, these inner products should be positive semi-definite, which is not manifest in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Gabriele Di Ubaldo , Luca V. Iliesiu , Henry W. Lin , Cynthia Yan

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 study quasinormal modes of massive scalar and massless Dirac fields in the background of regular black holes and traversable wormholes arising in Covariant Effective Quantum Gravity. Using both the JWKB approximation and time-domain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-01 B. C. Lütfüoğlu

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