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While wormholes may be just as good a prediction of Einstein's theory as black holes, they are subject to severe restrictions from quantum field theory. In particular, a wormhole can only be held open by violating the null energy condition,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-31 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

In the present work, we seek for static spherically symmetric solutions representing wormhole configurations in generalized Rastall gravity (GRG). In this theory, a varying coupling parameter could act as dark energy (DE) and thus, it can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-08 Naser Sadeghnezhad

We study wormhole geometries embedded in an expanding universe within a four-scalar non-linear $\sigma$ model, where the target-space metric is identified with the spacetime Ricci tensor. In this framework, wormholes can remain stable even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Taishi Katsuragawa , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

In this work we explore the possible existence of static, spherically symmetric and stationary, axisymmetric traversable wormholes coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics. Considering static and spherically symmetric (2+1) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Aaron V. B. Arellano , Francisco S. N. Lobo

The current study explores the novel potential of traversable wormhole solutions within the framework of Finsler geometry, incorporating conformal symmetry alongside traceless fluid dynamics. Using the Conformal Killing vector approach, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-07 Manjunath Malligawad , S. K. Narasimhamurthy , Z. Nekouee , Rajesh Kumar

We construct traversable wormholes by starting with simple four-dimensional classical solutions respecting the null energy condition and containing a pair of oppositely charged black holes connected by a non-traversable wormhole. We then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-03 Zicao Fu , Brianna Grado-White , Donald Marolf

The presence of exotic matter for the existence of the wormhole geometry has been an unavoidable problem in GR. In recent studies researchers have tried to deal with this issue using modified gravity theories where the WH geometry is…

General Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Umesh Kumar Sharma , Shweta , Ambuj Kumar Mishra

In the framework of the theory of general relativity, in order to obtain stable traversable wormholes, matter needs to violate the null energy condition. It is well known that the violation of the energy condition (EC) of matter leads to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-22 Jianbo Lu , Shining Yang , Yan Liu , Yuying Zhang , Yu Liu

We explore wormhole solutions sourced by Casimir energy density involving generalized uncertainty principle corrections within the framework of Rastall-Rainbow gravity. The questions of traversability and stability, as well as the presence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-10 Emmanuele Battista , Salvatore Capozziello , Abdelghani Errehymy

Wormhole solutions in a generalized hybrid metric-Palatini matter theory, given by a gravitational Lagrangian $f\left(R,\cal{R}\right)$, where $R$ is the metric Ricci scalar, and $\mathcal{R}$ is a Palatini scalar curvature defined in terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-03 João Luís Rosa , José P. S. Lemos , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We show that non-minimal coupling between matter and geometry can indeed help in constructing stable, traversable, wormholes (WHs) without requiring exotic matter under certain conditions. In models like $f({\cal Q},{\cal T})={\cal Q}+\beta…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 G. G. L. Nashed , Waleed El Hanafy

This study aims to investigate the physical properties of wormhole geometry within the context of $f(T,\mathcal{T})$ gravity, which serves as a teleparallel formulation of general relativity. We study a linear model,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-15 Foad Parsaei , Sara Rastgoo

We consider the inhomogeneous Morris-Thorne wormhole metric with matter tensors characterised by a novel linear equation of state in $f(R)$ gravity. Using the Einstein's field equations in metric $f(R)$ gravity we model solutions for both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Subhasis Nalui , Subhra Bhattacharya

Recently, there has been significant interest regarding the regularization of a $D\rightarrow 4$ limit of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity. This regularization involves re-scaling the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) coupling constant as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-14 Zinnat Hassan , P. K. Sahoo

We are presenting a quantum traversable wormhole in an exactly soluble two-dimensional model. This is different from previous works since the exotic negative energy that supports the wormhole is generated from the quantization of classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Won Tae Kim , Edwin J. Son , Myung Seok Yoon

The possibility of static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole solution in modified teleparallel Rastall gravity (MTRG) in a non-diagonal tetrad is investigated. Rastall assumption modifies the field equations and energy-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-15 N. Nazavari , Kh. Saaidi , Abolhassan Mohammadi

In this article, we study the possibility of sustaining a static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole geometries admitting conformal motion in Einstein gravity, which presents a more systematic approach to search a relation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-01 Piyali Bhar , Farook Rahaman , Tuhina Manna , Ayan Banerjee

In this paper, we explore higher-dimensional asymptotically flat wormhole geometries in the framework of Gauss-Bonnet (GB) gravity and investigate the effects of the GB term, by considering a specific radial-dependent redshift function and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-06 Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh , Mahdi Kord Zangeneh , Francisco S. N. Lobo

This article is based on the study of wormhole geometries in the context of symmetric teleparallel gravity or $f(Q)$ gravity, where $Q$ is the non-metricity scalar, and it is responsible for the gravitational interaction. To discuss the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-11 G. Mustafa , Zinnat Hassan , P. K. Sahoo

This work is devoted to the study of analytic wormhole solutions within the framework of $f(R)$ gravity theory. To check the possibility of having wormhole structures satisfying energy conditions, by means of the class I approach the pair…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-09 A. S. Agrawal , B. Mishra , Francisco Tello-Ortiz , A. Alvarez