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Multidimensional cosmological, static spherically symmetric and Euclidean configurations are described in a unified way for gravity interacting with several dilatonic fields and antisymmetric forms, associated with electric and magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Bronnikov

We analyze the properties of the circular orbits for massive particles in the equatorial plane of symmetric rotating Ellis wormholes. In particular, we obtain the orbital frequencies and the radial and vertical epicyclic frequencies, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Efthimia Deligianni , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Petya Nedkova , Stoytcho Yazadjiev

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

Natural wormholes and its astrophysical signatures have been sugested in various oportunities. By applying the strong field limit of gravitational lensing theory, we calculate the deflection angle and magnification curves produced by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 J. M. Tejeiro , E. Larranaga

We present a class of Lorentzian traversable wormholes in conformal gravity, constructed via Weyl rescaling of Minkowski spacetime. As a result, these wormholes are solutions of every theory of gravity that is both conformally invariant and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-19 Mariano Cadoni , Leonardo Modesto , Mirko Pitzalis , Andrea Pierfrancesco Sanna

Newtonian point mass binaries can be brought into arbitrarily close circular orbits. Neutron stars and black holes, however, are extended, relativistic objects. Both finite size and relativistic effects make very close orbits unstable, so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas W. Baumgarte

The purpose of this paper is to show that wormholes in noncommutative geometry can be macroscopic, based in part on an earlier study. The necessary violation of the weak energy condition is attributable to the noncommutative-geometry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-25 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

We explore the shadow of certain class of rotating traversable wormholes within classical general relativity. The images depend on the angular momentum of the wormhole, and the inclination angle of the observer. We compare the results with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Petya G. Nedkova , Vassil Tinchev , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We argue that the appearance of additional light rings in a shadow observation - beyond the infinite sequence of exponentially demagnified self-similar rings foreseen in the Kerr solution - would make a compelling case for the existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Gonzalo J. Olmo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

Euclidean wormholes have played a key role in the recent ``disorder averaged" approaches to quantum gravity and holography, but are typically only considered in somewhat special theories of gravity, such as theories in low dimensions or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-18 Alexander Maloney , Viraj Meruliya , Mark Van Raamsdonk

This study aims to investigate the viability of a viable logarithmic f(R) gravity for inflation in giving wormhole solutions. We consider a static and spherically symmetric spacetime and two different shape functions. We found that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-27 Yusmantoro , Rian Julianto

We investigate the shadow cast by a rotating traversable wormhole in the Teo class endowed with a general redshift function, with particular emphasis on the emergence of cuspy structures. The shadow boundary is the common envelope of two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-17 Peng Cheng , Ruo-Fan Xu , Peng Zhao

Traversible wormhole space-times are found as static, spherically symmetric solutions to the Einstein equations with ingoing and outgoing pure ghost radiation, i.e. pure radiation with negative energy density. Switching off the radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Sean A. Hayward

Recently, the ring images or the shadow images of the centers of the galaxy M87 and the Milky way have been reported by Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. It is believed that the ring images imply that the central objects form unstable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-11 Naoki Tsukamoto

We demonstrate that wormholes must be entangled regardless of asymptotic boundary conditions. Assuming black hole complementarity, we argue that traversable wormholes instantiate entanglement-assisted quantum channels and that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Ning Bao , Grant N. Remmen

The simplistic model of the classical spacetime foam is considered, which consists of static wormholes embedded in Minkowski spacetime. We explicitly demonstrate that such a foam structure leads to a topological bias of point-like sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. Kirillov , E. P. Savelova

Black holes are thought to describe the geometry of massive, dark compact objects in the universe. To further support and quantify this long-held belief requires knowledge of possible, if exotic alternatives. Here, we wish to understand how…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Vitor Cardoso , Caio F. B. Macedo , Kei-ichi Maeda , Hirotada Okawa

Wormholes have been advanced as both a method for circumventing the limitations of the speed of light as well as a means for building a time machine (to travel to the past). Thus it is argued that General Relativity may allow both of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Leonard Susskind

In this short review we present some recently obtained traversable wormhole models in the framework of general relativity (GR) in four and six dimensions that somehow widen our common ideas on wormhole existence and properties. These are,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-23 K. A. Bronnikov

If a traversable wormhole smoothly connects two different spacetimes, then the flux cannot be separately conserved in any of these spaces individually. Then objects propagating in a vicinity of a wormhole in one space must feel influence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-07 De-Chang Dai , Dejan Stojkovic