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The paper entitled Unimodular Gravity Traversable Wormholes by Agrawal et al. examined the properties of barotropic wormholes without tidal forces within the framework of Unimodular Gravity. Our analysis demonstrates that their conclusion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Mauricio Cataldo , Norman Cruz

A fundamental ingredient in wormhole physics is the presence of exotic matter, which involves the violation of the null energy condition. In this context, we investigate the possibility that wormholes could be supported by quark matter at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-13 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo , M. K. Mak

On the basis of exact solutions to the Einstein-Abelian gauge-dilaton equations in $D$-dimensional gravity, the properties of static axial configurations are discussed. Solutions free of curvature singularities are selected; they can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Kirill A. Bronnikov , Julio C. Fabris

We present a new implementation of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) dynamical friction within the galpy framework, enabling orbital integrations of globular clusters (GCs) across a broad range of halo-to-GC mass ratios and boson masses. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Adrian Szpilfidel , Pierre Boldrini , Jo Bovy , Paola Di Matteo

It is well known that general relativity is an effective theory of gravity at low energy scale, and actually quantum effects cannot be ignored in the strong-field regime. As a strong gravitational object, black hole plays a key role in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-23 Qi-Ming Fu , Xin Zhang

A new framework is proposed for general dynamic wormholes, unifying them with black holes. Both are generically defined locally by outer trapping horizons, temporal for wormholes and spatial or null for black and white holes. Thus wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Sean A. Hayward

This paper investigates static wormhole solutions through Noether symmetry approach in the context of energy-momentum squared gravity. This newly developed proposal resolves the singularity of big-bang and yields feasible cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-12 M. Sharif , M. Zeeshan Gul

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 absorption properties of reflection-asymmetric wormholes constructed via the thin-shell formalism in Palatini $f({\cal R})$ gravity. Such wormholes come from the matching of two Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetimes at a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-30 Renan B. Magalhães , Andreu Masó-Ferrando , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Luís C. B. Crispino

In this paper, we study the energy conditions of charged traversable wormholes in the framework of $f(R, \mathscr{L}_m)$ modified gravity. In the first case, we derive the shape functions (SFs) for two different choices of the charge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-18 Sagar V. Soni , A. C. Khunt , Farook Rahaman , A. H. Hasmani

An earlier study [Rahaman et al. (2014) & Kuhfittig (2014)] has demonstrated the possible existence of wormholes in the outer regions of the galactic halo, based on the Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) density profile. This paper uses the…

General Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Farook Rahaman , P. Salucci , P. K. F. Kuhfittig , Saibal Ray , Mosiur Rahaman

We present a family of spherically symmetric Lorentzian wormholes in quadratic F(R) gravity, with a thin shell of matter corresponding to the throat. At each side of the shell the geometry has a different constant value of the curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre

On large cosmological scales, anisotropic gravitational collapse is manifest in the dark cosmic web. Its statistical properties are little known for alternative dark matter models such as fuzzy dark matter (FDM). In this work, we assess for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-17 Tibor Dome , Anastasia Fialkov , Nina Sartorio , Philip Mocz

Stellar and gas kinematics of galaxies are a sensitive probe of the dark matter distribution in the halo. The popular fuzzy dark matter models predict the peculiar shape of density distribution in galaxies: specific dense core with sharp…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Mariia Khelashvili , Anton Rudakovskyi , Sabine Hossenfelder

We obtain a large class of Lorentzian wormhole spacetimes in scalar-tensor gravity, for which the matter stress energy does satisfy the weak energy condition. Our constructions have zero Ricci scalar and an everywhere finite, non-zero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-12 Rajibul Shaikh , Sayan Kar

We propose a novel phenomenological model of quantum gravitational collapse inspired by loop quantum gravity that ensures a completely regular spacetime evolution. By incorporating quantum gravitational modifications based on local rather…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Francesco Fazzini , Waleed Sherif

Renormalized vacuum expectation values of electromagnetic stress-energy tensor are calculated in the background spherically-symmetrical metric of the wormhole's topology. Covariant geodesic point separation method of regularization is used.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 V. Khatsymovsky

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), a scalar particle coupled to the gravitational field without self-interaction whose mass range is $m \sim 10^{-24} - 10^{-20}\ \rm{eV}$, is one of the promising alternative dark matter candidates to cold dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Hiroki Kawai , Masamune Oguri , Alfred Amruth , Tom Broadhurst , Jeremy Lim

A possible astrophysical object to be found in General Relativity is the wormhole. This special solution describes a topological bridge connecting points in two distinguished universes or two different points in the same universe. Despite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Moreshwar Tayde , Joao R. L. Santos , Julia N. Araujo , P. K. Sahoo

We investigate the possibility of explaining the observed effects usually attributed to the existence of dark matter through a transition from GR to a modified theory of gravity - embedding gravity. Since this theory can be reformulated as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 S. A. Paston , A. J. Ziyatdinov