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The quartic self-interacting conformal scalar field is used to construct a thin-shell wormhole satisfying all energy conditions. Accompanying the scalar field is the extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole with a positive cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-31 S. Danial Forghani , S. Habib Mazharimousavi , Mustafa Halilsoy

In this study, we reach the equations of motion of Morris-Thorne wormhole geometry by means of the Einstein Field Equations and Klein-Gordon Equation of Scalar-Tensor theory by direct calculation. We discuss the anisotropic matter energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-19 Onur Genç

It has been proven that in standard Einstein gravity, exotic matter is required to stabilize traversable wormholes. Quantum field theory permits these violations due to the quantum coherent effects found in any quantum field. Even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-07 Ramesh Radhakrishnan , Patrick Brown , Jacob Mutulevich , Eric Davis , Delaram Mirfendereski , Gerald Cleaver

Wormholes have been always an interesting object in gravity theories. In this paper we make a little review of the principal properties of these objects and the exotic matter they need to exist. Then, we obtain two specific solutions in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-07-17 Alexis Larranaga

In this work, we investigate static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole solutions within the framework of the extended symmetric teleparallel gravity, specifically the $\mathcal{F}(Q,\mathcal{L}_{m},\mathcal{T})$ gravity theory,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Rounak Manna , Krishna Pada Das , Ujjal Debnath

Black holes and wormholes are solutions of Einstein's field equations, both of which, from afar, look like a central mass. We show here that although at large distances both behave like Newtonian objects, close to the event horizon or to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Pritam Banerjee , Suvankar Paul , Rajibul Shaikh , Tapobrata Sarkar

Wormhole solutions in gravitational theories typically require exotic matter. Here we present a wormhole solution to the field equations of Einsteinian Cubic Gravity -- a phenomenological competitor to general relativity that includes terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-04 Mengqi Lu , Jiayue Yang , Robert B. Mann

Analytic solutions are presented which describe the construction of a traversable wormhole from a Schwarzschild black hole, and the enlargement of such a wormhole, in Einstein gravity. The matter model is pure radiation which may have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-10-02 Hiroko Koyama , Sean A. Hayward

We consider novel wormhole solutions supported by a matter content that minimally violates the null energy condition. More specifically, we consider an equation of state in which the sum of the energy density and radial pressure is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-10 Mariam Bouhmadi-Lopez , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Prado Martin-Moruno

In this letter, we investigate the traversable wormholes in the holographic dark energy (HDE) model constrained by the modern astronomical observations. First of all, we constrain the HDE model by adopting different data-sets, explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-21 Deng Wang , Xin-he Meng

We investigate spherically symmetric and static traversable wormholes supported by exotic matter, focusing on solutions sourced by physically motivated dark matter energy density profiles. Considering the Thomas-Fermi-type distribution, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Remo Garattini , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Kirill Zatrimaylov

We obtain traversable wormhole and time machine solutions of the field equations of an alternative of gravity with non-minimally curvature-matter coupling. Our solutions exhibit a non-trivial redshift function and allow for matter that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Orfeu Bertolami , Ricardo Zambujal Ferreira

It is well known that traversable wormholes are valid solutions of the Einstein field equations, but these structures can only be maintained by violating the null energy condition. In this paper, we have obtained such wormhole solutions in…

General Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nayan Sarkar , Susmita Sarkar , Farook Rahaman , P. K. F. Kuhfittig , G S Khadekar

At first, considering the Einstein framework, we introduce some new static traversable wormholes, and study the effects of a dark energy-like source on them. Thereinafter, a brief review on Einstein field equations in Lyra manifold is…

General Physics · Physics 2017-11-13 A. Sayahian Jahromi , H. Moradpour

It is well known that a Morris-Thorne wormhole can only be held open by violating the null energy condition, physically realizable by the use of "exotic matter." Unfortunately, even a small or moderately-sized wormhole would have a radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-29 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

A dynamical theory of traversable wormholes is detailed in spherical symmetry. Generically a wormhole consists of a tunnel of trapped surfaces between two mouths, defined as temporal outer trapping horizons with opposite senses, in mutual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-30 Sean A. Hayward

It is known that traversible wormholes require negative energy density. We here argue how much negative energy is needed for wormholes, using a local analysis which does not assume any symmetry. and in particular allows dynamic…

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

In this paper, we explore wormhole solutions in a higher-derivative theory of gravity where the action depends not only on the Ricci scalar \(R\), but also on its d'Alembertian, \(\Box R\). Such \(f(R,\Box R)\) models are motivated by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 M Daniel Ranjan , Soumya Chakrabarti , Sanjit Das

We prove a uniqueness theorem for traversable wormhole solutions in the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton gravity with a phantom scalar field and a possible phantom electromagnetic field. In a certain region of the parameter space, determined by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-07 Boian Lazov , Petya Nedkova , Stoytcho Yazadjiev

In this paper, we evaluate traversable wormhole solutions through Karmarkar condition in $f(R,T)$ theory, where $T$ is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor and $R$ represents the Ricci scalar. We develop a wormhole shape function for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-06 M. Sharif , Arooj Fatima