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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

As was discovered some time ago by Giddings and Strominger (GS), an axion can support a wormhole geometry in the presence of a massless dilaton, as long as the dilaton coupling remains below a critical value. We find that when the dilaton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-21 Caroline Jonas , George Lavrelashvili , Jean-Luc Lehners

The prototype of a Euclidean wormhole solution of Einstein gravity coupled to matter is the axion wormhole in four spacetime dimensions. In this primarily expository article, we spell out some details about this construction. The axion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Edward Witten

Recent work has demonstrated that Euclidean Giddings-Strominger axion wormholes are stable in asymptotically flat 4D Minkowski spacetime, suggesting that they should, at least naively, be included as contributions in the quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-14 Andrew Loveridge , Hao-Yu Sun

A rotating stationary solution of the vacuum Einstein equations with a cosmological constant is exhibited which reduces to de Sitter's interior cosmological solution when the angular momentum goes to zero. This solution is locally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-10 G. F. Chapline , P. Marecki

We present a new wormhole solution connecting two points of the same universe separated by finite distance. Virtually all the existing solutions connect two disconnected universes, or two points of the same universe that are infinitely far…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 De-Chang Dai , Djordje Minic , Dejan Stojkovic

We explore the construction and stability of asymptotically anti-de Sitter Euclidean wormholes in a variety of models. In simple ad hoc low-energy models, it is not hard to construct two-boundary Euclidean wormholes that dominate over…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-17 Donald Marolf , Jorge E. Santos

A exact de Sitter-like cosmological solution of quadratic gravitation with torsion has been found. In the limit of constant energy and pressure, it becomes a exact de Sitter spacetime. It exists in a wide class of quadratic gravity theories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-18 Guo-Ying Qi , Yongxin Guo

Wormholes are considered both from the Wheeler deWitt equation, as well as from the field equations in the Euclidean background of Roberson Walker mini-superspace in $R^2$ gravity. Quantum wormhole satisfies Hawking Page wormhole boundary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-11 B Modak , Gargi Biswas

We study small fluctuations of the stringy wormhole solutions of graviton-dilaton-axion system in arbitrary dimensions. We show under O($d$)-symmetric harmonic perturbation that the Euclidean wormhole solutions are unstable in flat space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jin Young Kim , Yoonbai Kim , James E. Hetrick

A generalisation of the asymptotic wormhole boundary condition for the case of spacetimes with a cosmological horizon is proposed. In particular, we consider de Sitter spacetime with small cosmological constant. The wave functions selected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Carlos Barcelo

In this work we present a class of geometries which describes wormholes in a Randall-Sundrum brane model, focusing on de Sitter backgrounds. Maximal extensions of the solutions are constructed and their causal structures are discussed. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-06 C. Molina , J. C. S. Neves

We discuss the structure of a gravitational euclidean instanton obtained through coupling of gravity to electromagnetism. Its topology at fixed $t$ is $S^1\times S^2$. This euclidean solution can be interpreted as a tunnelling to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Cavaglia' V. de Alfaro , F. de Felice

We study Euclidean wineglass wormholes, which mediate the nucleation of inflationary spacetimes from an existing spacetime with asymptotically flat or Anti-de Sitter regions. These wormholes are distinguished by the presence of a local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 George Lavrelashvili , Jean-Luc Lehners

In this paper new exact solutions in eight dimensional Lovelock theory will be presented. These solutions are vacuum static wormhole, black hole and generalized Bertotti-Robinson space-times with nontrivial torsion. All the solutions have a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Fabrizio Canfora , Alex Giacomini

In 6D general relativity with a phantom scalar field as a source of gravity, we present solutions that implement a transition from an effective 4D geometry times small extra dimensions to an effectively 6D space-time where the physical laws…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-19 K. A. Bronnikov , P. A. Korolyov , A. Makhmudov , M. V. Skvortsova

A spherically symmetric wormhole in Newtonian gravitation in curved space, enhanced with a connection between the mass density and the Ricci scalar, is presented. The wormhole, consisting of two connected asymptotically flat regions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-23 Paulo Luz , José P. S. Lemos

We construct slowly rotating traversable wormholes in the presence of an anisotropic fluid. Starting from a Teo-type stationary, axisymmetric extension of the Morris-Thorne metric, we perform a slow-rotation expansion, fix a gauge that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Davide Batic , Denys Dutykh , Mark Essa Sukaiti

We study extremal codimension-two areas and late-time bulk correlators between a pair of asymptotically de Sitter space universes connected through an Euclidean axion wormhole, in arbitrary dimensions. Assuming the validity of the de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Sergio E. Aguilar-Gutierrez

In the present work we investigate wormhole configurations described by a constant redshift function in Einstein-Cubic gravity ({{\sf ECG}}). We derive analytical wormhole geometries by assuming a particular equation of state ({{\sf EoS}})…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-05 Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh , Amir Hadi Ziaie