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Recently several models of traversable wormholes have been proposed which require only arbitrarily small amounts of negative energy to hold them open against self-collapse. If the exotic matter is assumed to be provided by quantum fields,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 C. J. Fewster , T. A. Roman

Traversable wormhole solutions are explored in $f(\mathcal{R},\mathbb{T})$ gravity, a curvature--matter extension in which $\mathcal{R}$ is the Ricci scalar and $\mathbb{T}$ denotes the trace of the energy--momentum tensor. To generate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-02 G. G. L. Nashed , A. Eid

Macroscopic traversable wormhole solutions to Einstein's field equations in $(2+1)$ and $(3+1)$ dimensions with a cosmological constant are investigated. Ensuring traversability severely constrains the material used to generate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 M. S. Delgaty , R. B. Mann

The vacuum polarization of the quantized scalar field with non-conformal coupling $\xi$ on the long throat of a wormhole background is calculated. It is shown that the stress-energy tensor of vacuum fluctuations in considered spacetime is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-18 A. Popov

We consider the self-energy and the self-force for scalar massive and massless particles at rest in the wormhole space-time. We develop a general approach to obtain the self-force and apply it to the two specific profiles of the wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-24 V. B. Bezerra , Nail R. Khusnutdinov

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

A spherically symmetric space-time solution for a diffusive two measures theory is studied. An asymmetric wormhole geometry is obtained where the metric coefficients have a linear term for galactic distances and the analysis of Mannheim and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-31 Sebastian Bahamonde , David Benisty , Eduardo I. Guendelman

We formulate the traversability of wormhole throats as a local and covariant null defocusing condition derived from the Raychaudhuri equation. Since unimodular gravity preserves the local geometric structure of spacetime, the null focusing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-03 Erick Pastén , Marco Bosquez , Norman Cruz

To find more deliberate $f(R, T)$ astrophysical solutions, we proceed by studying wormhole geometries under the assumption of spherical symmetry and the existence of a conformal Killing symmetry to attain the more acceptable astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-21 Ayan Banerjee , Ksh. Newton Singh , M. K. Jasim , Farook Rahaman

In this work, we undertake an analysis of new wormhole solutions within an action-dependent Lagrangian framework. These geometries can be traversable and supported by a positive energy density. The modification of the gravitational field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-12 Ismael Ayuso , Ruth Lazkoz

In this study, we have conducted an analysis of traversable wormhole solutions within the framework of linear $f(Q, T) = \alpha Q + \beta T$ gravity, ensuring that all the energy conditions hold for the entire spacetime. The solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-13 Moreshwar Tayde , Sayantan Ghosh , P. K. Sahoo

A non-singular Emergent Universe (EU) scenario within the realm of standard Relativistic physics requires a generalization of the Equation of State (EoS) connecting the pressure and energy density. This generalized EoS is capable of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-10 Rikpratik Sengupta , Shounak Ghosh , B C Paul , Mehedi Kalam

We present new, asymptotically flat, static, spherically symmetric and traversable wormhole solutions in General Relativity which are supported by a family of ghost scalar fields with quartic potential. This family consists of a particular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-31 Belen Carvente , Víctor Jaramillo , Juan Carlos Degollado , Darío Núñez , Olivier Sarbach

Spacetime wormholes in isotropic spacetimes are represented traditionally by embedding diagrams which were symmetric paraboloids. This mirror symmetry, however, can be broken by considering different sources on different sides of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-15 S. Danial Forghani , S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

This paper examines wormhole geometries in the context of $f(Q,T)$ gravity under the background of non-commutative distributions. We discuss the analytical solutions assuming spherical symmetry and the presence of conformal Killing vectors,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-22 Moreshwar Tayde , Zinnat Hassan , P. K. Sahoo

We study the linear polarization from the accretion disk around a class of static traversable wormholes. Applying the simplified model of a magnetized fluid ring orbiting in the equatorial plane, we search for characteristic signatures,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Valentin Delijski , Galin Gyulchev , Petya Nedkova , Stoytcho Yazadjiev

A class of $f(R, T)$ theories extends the Einstein-Hilbert action by incorporating a general function of $R$ and $T$, the Ricci scalar and the trace of the ordinary energy-momentum tensor $T_{\mu\nu}$, respectively, thereby introducing a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Yaghoub Heydarzade , Maryam Ranjbar

In the present work, a new form of the logarithmic shape function is proposed for the linear $f(R,T)$ gravity, $f(R,T)=R+2\lambda T$ where $\lambda$ is an arbitrary coupling constant, in wormhole geometry. The desired logarithmic shape…

General Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Archana Dixit , Chanchal Chawla , Anirudh Pradhan

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

Holding a Morris-Thorne wormhole open requires a violation of the null energy condition, calling for the need for so-called exotic matter near the throat. Many researchers consider exotic matter to be completely unphysical in classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-01 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig