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Based on the recently introduced black-bounce spacetimes, we shall consider the construction of the related spherically symmetric thin-shell traversable wormholes within the context of standard general relativity. All of the really unusual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-23 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Alex Simpson , Matt Visser

In general relativity, traversable wormholes are possible provided they do not represent shortcuts in the spacetime. Einstein equations, together with the achronal averaged null energy condition, demand to take longer for an observer to go…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-14 Gaston Giribet , Emilio Rubín de Celis , Claudio Simeone

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

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

Wormholes are interesting space-time structures connecting two asymptotic regions found in a universe or multiverse and are solutions to Einstein's field equations. These objects have many interesting features as far as physics is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-28 A. H. Hasmani , Sagar V. Soni , Ravi Panchal

For a generic $f(R)$ which admits a polynomial expansion of at least third order (i.e. $\frac{d^{3}f}{dR^{3}}\neq 0$) we find the near-throat wormhole solution. Necessary conditions for the existence of wormholes in such $f(R)$ theories are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

We construct a static axisymmetric wormhole from the gravitational field of two Schwarzschild particles which are kept in equilibrium by strings (ropes) extending to infinity. The wormhole is obtained by matching two three-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 F. Schein , P. C. Aichelburg , W. Israel

We investigate traversable wormhole solutions within the framework of $f(\mathscr{Q},\mathscr{L}_m)$ gravity, a symmetric teleparallel theory featuring non-minimal coupling between geometry and matter. Adopting a linear functional form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 K. Suhasini , G. Ravi Kiran , N. S. Kavya , C. S. Varsha , V. Venkatesha

We study linear scalar perturbations of the four-dimensional, traversable wormhole solution of Maldacena, Milekhin, and Popov(arXiv:1807.04726). The geometry is constructed by matching an asymptotically flat, near-extremal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Rajdeep Mondal , Abhishake Sadhukhan

A possible candidate for the present accelerated expansion of the Universe is ''phantom energy'', which possesses an equation of state of the form $\omega\equiv p/\rho<-1$, consequently violating the null energy condition. As this is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Francisco S. N. Lobo

In the letter titled ''Traversable Wormholes in General Relativity'' [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 091104 (2022)], R. A. Konoplya and A. Zhidenko have constructed an asymmetric wormhole solution, which is not symmetric about the throat and is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-27 Yong-Qiang Wang , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

Wormhole is defined as the topological structure with the throat connecting two asymptotically flat spaces. In order to have and maintain the structure of the wormhole, there needs the geometrical flare-out condition, i.e., the minimal size…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Sung-Won Kim

The brane cosmology scenario is based on the idea that our Universe is a 3-brane embedded in a five-dimensional bulk. In this work, a general class of braneworld wormholes is explored with $R\neq 0$, where $R$ is the four dimensional Ricci…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Francisco S. N. Lobo

When Morris and Thorne first proposed that wormholes might be actual physical structures suitable for interstellar travel, they needed to pay close attention to certain traversability conditions such as low tidal forces, which placed severe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-15 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig , Vance D. Gladney

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

In this work we study a Kerr-like wormhole with phantom matter as source. It has three parameters: mass, angular momentum and scalar field charge. This wormhole has a naked ring singularity, other wise it is regular everywhere. The mean…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-09 Galaxia Miranda , Tonatiuh Matos , Nadiezhda Motelongo García

Static and spherically symmetric wormhole solutions can be reconstructed in the framework of curvature based Extended Theories of Gravity. In particular, extensions of the General Relativity, in metric and curvature formalism give rise to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-23 Vittorio De Falco , Emmanuele Battista , Salvatore Capozziello , Mariafelicia De Laurentis

We establish a general no--go theorem demonstrating that all traversable wormhole configurations in Unimodular Gravity necessarily require exotic matter. The proof relies solely on the geometric flaring-out condition, $b'(r_0) \leq 1$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Mauricio Cataldo , Norman Cruz , Patricio Salgado

In the present work, we develop and examine a series of exact solutions to Einstein's 5-dimensional field equations in the vacuum, which depend on two constant parameters, $p$ and $q$, which generalize the solutions of L\"u and Mei [8]…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 I. A. Sarmiento-Alvarado , Leonel Bixano , Tonatiuh Matos

Various authors have suggested that Kaluza--Klein variants of traversable wormholes might to some extent ameliorate the defocussing properties (the curvature condition violations, and implied energy condition violations) inherent in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Christopher Simmonds , Matt Visser