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The solutions of traversable wormholes and their geometries are investigated in higher-curvature gravity with boundary terms for each case under the presence of anisotropic, isotropic and barotropic fluids in detail. For each case, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-03 M. Ilyas , Kazuharu Bamba

Wormholes allowed by the general theory of relativity that are simultaneously traversable by humanoid travelers are subject to severe constraints from quantum field theory, particularly the so-called quantum inequalities, here slightly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

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

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

We explore the possibility of dynamic wormhole geometries, within the context of nonlinear electrodynamics. The Einstein field equation imposes a contracting wormhole solution and the obedience of the weak energy condition. Furthermore, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron V. B. Arellano , Francisco S. N. Lobo

In this work, we explore the possibility of evolving (2+1) and (3+1)-dimensional wormhole spacetimes, conformally related to the respective static geometries, within the context of nonlinear electrodynamics. For the (3+1)-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Aaron V. B. Arellano , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We propose a Lorentzian wormhole geometry characterized by a closed string massless sector with nontrivial $H$-flux and a scalar dilaton. In the string frame, the dilaton exhibits a negative kinetic term, enabling the existence of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Hun Jang , Minkyoo Kim , Hocheol Lee , Jeong-Hyuck Park

Embedding theorems, which have a long history in the general theory of relativity, are used in this paper to account for two of the most troubling aspects of Morris-Thorne wormholes, (1) the origin of exotic matter and the amount needed to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-06 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

Branes are ubiquitous elements of any low-energy limit of string theory. We point out that negative tension branes violate all the standard energy conditions of the higher-dimensional spacetime they are embedded in; this opens the door to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Carlos Barcelo , Matt Visser

A regular vacuum solution in 5D gravity on the principal bundle with the U(1) structural group is proposed as a 4D wormhole. This solution has two null hypersurfaces where an interchange of the sign of some 5D metric components happens. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Dzhunushaliev , H. -J. Schmidt

In 6D general relativity with a phantom scalar field as a source of gravity, we present solutions that implement a transition from an effective 4D geometry times small extra dimensions to an effectively 6D space-time where the physical laws…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-19 K. A. Bronnikov , P. A. Korolyov , A. Makhmudov , M. V. Skvortsova

In this work, we derive an exact vacuum solution to the Einstein field equations that depends on three constant parameters: the throat radius $r_0$, a parameter $q$, which is closely associated with the Komar mass, and a parameter $s$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 I. A. Sarmiento-Alvarado , Leonel Bixano , Tonatiuh Matos

Recently we have shown that for $2+1-$dimensional thin-shell wormholes a non-circular throat may lead to a physical wormhole in the sense that the energy conditions are satisfied. By the same token, herein we consider angular dependent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-29 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

We construct wormholes in Einstein-vector-Gauss-Bonnet theory where a real massless vector field is coupled to the higher curvature Gauss-Bonnet invariant. We consider three coupling functions which depend on the square of the vector field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-28 Simon Barton , Claus Kiefer , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

Using simplicial minisuperspace techniques we obtain a wormhole configuration, capable of modelling both a throat between two equal Euclidean and Lorentzian universes. Computing the wavefunction associated to such configuration we conclude…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 Cristovao Correia da Silva , Ruth M. Williams

We consider rotating wormhole solutions in general relativity supported by a complex non-phantom spinor field (which provides a nontrivial spacetime topology) and electromagnetic fields. The solutions are asymmetric, regular, asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev

Wormhole geometries in curvature-matter coupled modified gravity are explored, by considering an explicit nonminimal coupling between an arbitrary function of the scalar curvature, R, and the Lagrangian density of matter. It is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-09 Nadiezhda Montelongo Garcia , Francisco S. N. Lobo

It is shown that the existence of static, cylindrically symmetric wormholes does not require violation of the weak or null energy conditions near the throat, and cylindrically symmetric wormhole geometries can appear with less exotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-30 Kirill A. Bronnikov , José P. S. Lemos

We consider the generalized Tolman solution of general relativity, describing the evolution of a spherical dust cloud in the presence of an external electric or magnetic field. The solution contains three arbitrary functions $f(R)$, $F(R)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-18 Kirill A. Bronnikov , Pavel E. Kashargin , Sergey V. Sushkov

Wormholes are a solution for General Relativity field equations which characterize a passage or a tunnel that connects two different regions of space-time and is filled by some sort of exotic matter, that does not satisfy the energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-14 P. H. R. S. Moraes , W. de Paula , R. A. C. Correa