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In this article, new wormhole solutions in the framework of General Relativity are presented. Taking advantage of gravitational decoupling by means of minimal geometric deformation approach and, the so-called noncommutative geometry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-02 Francisco Tello-Ortiz , B. Mishra , A. Alvarez , Ksh. Newton Singh

It was argued in literature that traversable wormholes can exist with arbitrarily small violation of null energy conditions. We show that if the amount of exotic material near the wormhole throat tends to zero, either this leads to a horn…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 O. B. Zaslavskii

In this work, we construct traversable wormhole geometries in the context of f(R) modified theories of gravity. We impose that the matter threading the wormhole satisfies the energy conditions, so that it is the effective stress-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-12 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Miguel A. Oliveira

This paper discusses a new wormhole solution that admits conformal motion, given a noncommutative-geometry background. After a discussion of the wormhole geometry and the energy conditions, the analysis proceeds with the calculation of the…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Farook Rahaman , Saibal Ray , G. S. Khadekar , P. K. F. Kuhfittig , Indrani Karar

Wormholes are non-trivial topological structures that arise as exact solutions to Einstein's field equations, theoretically connecting distinct regions of spacetime via a throat-like geometry. While static traversable wormholes necessarily…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Mahdi Kord Zangeneh , Francisco S. N. Lobo

It is a very well known fact that the energy conditions concerning traversable wormhole (WH) solutions of Einstein equations are violated. Consequently, attempts to avoid the violation of the energy conditions constitutes one of the main…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-14 Everton M. C. Abreu , Nélio Sasaki

Noncommutative geometry, an offshoot of string theory, replaces point-like structures with smeared objects and has recently been extended to higher dimensions. The purpose of this letter is to obtain wormhole solutions with this extended…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-30 Farook Rahaman , P. K. F. Kuhfittig , Saibal Ray , Safiqul Islam

We explore the possibility of dynamic wormhole geometries, within the context of nonlinear electrodynamics. The Einstein field equation imposes a contracting wormhole solution and the obedience of the weak energy condition. Furthermore, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron V. B. Arellano , Francisco S. N. Lobo

This paper discusses the feasibility of thin-shell wormholes in spacetimes of embedding class one admitting a one-parameter group of conformal motions. It is shown that the surface energy density $\sigma$ is positive, while the surface…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

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

Wormholes are tunnels connecting different regions in space-time. They were obtained originally as a solution for Einstein's General Relativity theory and according to this theory they need to be filled by an exotic kind of anisotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-15 P. K. Sahoo , P. H. R. S. Moraes , Parbati Sahoo , G. Ribeiro

It has been known for a long time that Morris-Thorne wormholes can only be held open by violating the null energy condition, which can be expressed in the form $\tau-\rho c^2>0$, where $\tau$ is the radial tension. Matter that violates this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-19 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

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

In [J. Blazquez-Salcedo, C. Knoll, E. Radu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126 (2021) no.10, 101102] asymptotically flat traversable wormhole solutions were obtained in the Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theory without using phantom matter. The normalizable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-07 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

Traversable wormholes necessarily require violations of the averaged null energy condition; this being the definition of ``exotic matter''. However, the theorems which guarantee the energy condition violation are remarkably silent when it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-18 Matt Visser , Sayan Kar , Naresh Dadhich

While wormholes are just as good a prediction of Einstein's theory as black holes, they are subject to severe restrictions from quantum field theory. To allow for the possibility of interstellar travel, a macroscopic wormhole would need to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-25 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

We construct wormholes in Einstein-vector-Gauss-Bonnet theory where a real massless vector field is coupled to the higher curvature Gauss-Bonnet invariant. We consider three coupling functions which depend on the square of the vector field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-28 Simon Barton , Claus Kiefer , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

When Morris and Thorne first proposed the possible existence of traversable wormholes, they adopted the following strategy: maintain complete control over the geometry, thereby leaving open the determination of the stress-energy tensor. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-24 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

The theoretical construction of a traversable wormhole proposed by Morris and Thorne maintains complete control over the geometry by assigning both the shape and redshift functions, thereby leaving open the determination of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-27 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

Embedding theorems, which have a long history in the general theory of relativity, are used in this paper to account for two of the most troubling aspects of Morris-Thorne wormholes, (1) the origin of exotic matter and the amount needed to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-06 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig