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In the paper, only Static Spherically Symmetric space-times in four dimensions are considered within modified gravity models. The non-singular static metrics, including black holes not admitting a de Sitter core in the center and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-07 A. S. Agrawal , Sergio Zerbini , B. Mishra

A Morris-Thorne wormhole can only be sustained by violating the null energy condition, thereby requiring the existence of "exotic matter," a requirement that many researchers consider unphysical. Using a mostly qualitative approach, it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-09 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

Traversable wormholes (TWHs) remain one of the most intriguing predictions of General Relativity (GR), offering passage through space-time. However, their existence requires the violation of the null energy condition, making their detection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-18 Subenoy Chakraborty , Madhukrishna Chakraborty

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

In this paper we study the possibility of non-relativistic quantum particles to traverse the generalized Ellis-Bronnikov wormholes by considering quantum effects, such as tunneling. We have used the generalized Ellis-Bronnikov wormhole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-16 J. Furtado , C. R. Muniz , M. S. Cunha , J. E. G. Silva

In this work we show the existence of traversable wormhole and time-machine solutions in a modified theory of gravity where matter and curvature are nonminimally coupled. Those solutions present a nontrivial redshift function and exist even…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-24 Orfeu Bertolami , Ricardo Zambujal Ferreira

The theoretical construction of a traversable wormhole from a Schwarzschild black hole is described, using analytic solutions in Einstein gravity. The matter model is pure phantom radiation (pure radiation with negative energy density) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Sean A. Hayward , Hiroko Koyama

First, the ideas introduced in the wormhole research field since the work of Morris and Thorne are briefly reviewed, namely, the issues of energy conditions, wormhole construction, stability, time machines and astrophysical signatures.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose' P. S. Lemos , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Sergio Quinet de Oliveira

We study numerically the stability of Morris & Thorne's first traversible wormhole, shown previously by Ellis to be a solution for a massless ghost Klein-Gordon field. Our code uses a dual-null formulation for spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Hisa-aki Shinkai , Sean A. Hayward

Wormholes are interesting space-time structures connecting two asymptotic regions found in a universe or multiverse and are solutions to Einstein's field equations. These objects have many interesting features as far as physics is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-28 A. H. Hasmani , Sagar V. Soni , Ravi Panchal

A basic constraint to be satisfied by Brans class I solution for being a traversible wormhole is derived. It is argued that the solution could be a wormhole analogue of the Horowitz-Ross naked black hole. It is further demonstrated that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-25 Amrita Bhattacharya , Ilnur Nigmatzyanov , Ramil Izmailov , Kamal K. Nandi

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

Exact solutions of traversable wormholes were recently found under the assumption of spherical symmetry and the existence of a non-static conformal symmetry. In this paper, we verify that in the case of the conformally symmetric spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian G. Boehmer , Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

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

In the present paper, the modelling of traversale wormholes, proposed by Morris \& Thorne \cite{morris1}, is performed within the $f(R)$ gravity with particular viable case $f(R)=R-\mu R_c\Big(\frac{R}{R_c}\Big)^p$, where $\mu, R_c>0$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-18 Gauranga C. Samanta , Nisha Godani

This paper discusses traversable wormholes that differ slightly but significantly from those of the Morris-Thorne type under the assumption of cylindrical symmetry. The throat is a piecewise smooth cylindrical surface resulting in a shape…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 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

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

A unified framework for black holes and traversible wormholes is described, where both are locally defined by outer trapping horizons, two-way traversible for wormholes and one-way traversible for black or white holes. In a two-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sean A. Hayward

This paper explores the effect of an extra spatial dimension on a Morris-Thorne wormhole. After proposing a suitable model, it is shown that under certain conditions, the throat of the wormhole can be threaded with ordinary matter, while…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-05 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig