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Wormholes are tunnels connecting two different points in space-time. In Einstein's General Relativity theory, wormholes are expected to be filled by exotic matter, i.e., matter that does not satisfy the energy conditions and may have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-17 P. H. R. S. Moraes , P. K. Sahoo

In this work, we investigate the existence of wormholes within the framework of Loop Quantum Cosmology, using isotropic dark matter as the source. We analyze three distinct density profiles and solve the modified gravity field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-11 Marcos V. de S. Silva , G. Alencar , R. N. Costa Filho , R. M. P. Neves , Celio R. Muniz

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

A new class of traversable wormholes was recently constructed which relies only on local bulk dynamics rather than an explicit coupling between distinct boundaries. Here we begin with a four-dimensional Weyl fermion field of any mass $m$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-15 Donald Marolf , Sean McBride

Macroscopic traversable wormhole solutions to Einstein's field equations in $(2+1)$ and $(3+1)$ dimensions with a cosmological constant are investigated. Ensuring traversability severely constrains the material used to generate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 M. S. Delgaty , R. B. Mann

Traversable wormholes in General Relativity (GR) require exotic matter sources that violate the null energy condition (NEC), and such behavior may be avoided in modified gravity. Moreover, the concept of non-commutative geometry as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-18 Anshuman Baruah , Parangam Goswami , Atri Deshamukhya

Wormhole solutions in General Relativity (GR) require \textit{exotic} matter sources that violate the null energy condition (NEC), and it is well known that higher-order modifications of GR and some alternative matter sources can support…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-06 Parangam Goswami , Anshuman Baruah , Atri Deshamukhya

A traversable wormhole generally violates the averaged null energy condition, usually requiring exotic matter. Recently, it has been found that the traversable wormhole can be realized by non-exotic matter in Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-06 Hua-Chao Liu , Rong-Xin Miao

Various spacetime candidates for traversable wormholes, regular black holes, and `black-bounces' are presented and thoroughly explored in the context of the gravitational theory of general relativity. All candidate spacetimes belong to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-30 Alex Simpson

Some of the simplest wormhole solutions involve massless scalar fields that take imaginary values. Massless fields can be interpreted as coupling constants in asymptotically flat or asymptotically AdS gravity theories. We argue that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Juan Maldacena , Alexander Maloney , Brian McPeak

Ghost stars are compact configurations characterized by an arbitrarily small total mass. Such objects require regions of negative energy density -a condition typically regarded as unphysical within the context of conventional stellar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Alberto Guilabert , Ernesto Fuenmayor , Pedro Bargueño , Ernesto Contreras

Traversable wormholes have traditionally been viewed as intrinsically topological entities in some multiply connected spacetime. Here, we show that topology is too limited a tool to accurately characterize a generic traversable wormhole: in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-30 David Hochberg , Matt Visser

Wormholes are tunnels connecting different regions in space-time. They were obtained originally as a solution for Einstein's General Relativity theory and according to this theory they need to be filled by an exotic kind of anisotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-15 P. K. Sahoo , P. H. R. S. Moraes , Parbati Sahoo , G. Ribeiro

Wormholes have been advanced as both a method for circumventing the limitations of the speed of light as well as a means for building a time machine (to travel to the past). Thus it is argued that General Relativity may allow both of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Leonard Susskind

Gravitational lensing by traversable Lorentzian wormholes is a ew possibility which is analyzed here in the strong field limit. Wormhole solutions are considered in the Einstein minimally coupled theory and in the brane world model. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Kamal Kanti Nandi , Yuan-Zhong Zhang , Alexander V. Zakharov

This paper addresses the following issues: (1) the possible existence of macroscopic traversable wormholes, given a noncommutative-geometry background, and (2) the possibility of allowing zero tidal forces, given a known density. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-09 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

Following the recent theory of Lovelock-Brans-Dicke gravity, we continue to investigate the conditions to support traversable wormholes by the gravitational effects of spacetime parity and topology, which arise from the nonminimal couplings…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-08 David Wenjie Tian

This MSc thesis is divided in to two parts. The first, covers the foundations of theories of gravitation, and, the second incorporates original work on the subject of the existence of traversable wormholes in $f(R)$ modified theories of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-15 Miguel A. Oliveira

Traversible wormhole space-times are found as static, spherically symmetric solutions to the Einstein equations with ingoing and outgoing pure ghost radiation, i.e. pure radiation with negative energy density. Switching off the radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Sean A. Hayward

This paper discusses the feasibility of thin-shell wormholes in spacetimes of embedding class one admitting a one-parameter group of conformal motions. It is shown that the surface energy density $\sigma$ is positive, while the surface…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig