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Wormholes are non-trivial topological structures that arise as exact solutions to Einstein's field equations, theoretically connecting distinct regions of spacetime via a throat-like geometry. While static traversable wormholes necessarily…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Mahdi Kord Zangeneh , Francisco S. N. Lobo

In this paper, we study the spherically symmetric Dirac star model in the presence of a phantom field, obtaining a traversable wormhole solution in non-trivial topological spacetime. This solution exhibits asymmetry in both the field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-29 Chen-Hao Hao , Shi-Xian Sun , Long-Xing Huang , Rong Zhang , Xin Su , Yong-Qiang Wang

We consider static, spherically symmetric, electrically or/and magnetically charged configurations of a minimally coupled scalar field with an arbitrary potential $V(\phi)$ in general relativity. Using the inverse problem method, we obtain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. A. Bronnikov , M. S. Chernakova

We investigate traversable wormhole geometries in the framework of $F(T)$ gravity supplemented by a weak de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley (dRGT) massive term. Using the static and spherically symmetric Morris-Thorne metric, we derive the field and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Alexandre Landry , Yassine Sekhmani , Sunil K Maurya , Akram Ali , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We present a new class of solutions for static spherically symmetric wormhole spacetimes in conformal gravity and outline a detailed method for their construction. As an explicit example, we construct a class of traversable and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-09 Manuel Hohmann , Christian Pfeifer , Martti Raidal , Hardi Veermäe

In this paper, we consider wormhole geometries in the context of teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR) as well as $f(T)$ gravity. The TEGR is an alternative geometrical formulation of Einstein's general relativity, where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-15 Ksh. Newton Singh , Ayan Banerjee , Farook Rahaman , M. K. Jasim

In this study, we investigate traversable wormholes within the framework of Einstein-Euler-Heisenberg (EEH) nonlinear electrodynamics. By employing the Einstein field equations with quantum corrections from the Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-27 Phongpichit Channuie , Allah Ditta , Narakorn Kaewkhao , Ali Övgün

We consider stationary, cylindrically symmetric configurations in general relativity and formulate necessary conditions for the existence of rotating cylindrical wormholes. It is shown that in a comoving reference frame the rotational part…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-12 Kirill A. Bronnikov , Vladimir G. Krechet , José P. S. Lemos

Wormholes are exotic compact objects characterized by the absence of essential singularities and horizons, acting as slender bridges linking two distinct regions of spacetime. Despite their theoretical significance, they remain however…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-25 Ciro De Simone , Vittorio De Falco , Salvatore Capozziello

We investigate a new type of Schwarzschild wormhole, which relies on a 3-dimensional spacetime defect with degenerate metrics. This particular wormhole is a solution of the vacuum Einstein equations. We also study the generalized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-11 Zi-Liang Wang

Models of static wormholes within the $f(\textit{R}, \textit{T})$ extended theory of gravity are investigated and, in particular, the family $f(\textit{R}, \textit{T}) = R + \lambda T$, with $T = \rho + P_{r} + 2P_{l}$ being the trace of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-25 Emilio Elizalde , Martiros Khurshudyan

This paper investigates a particular type of wormhole. The wormhole solutions studied are obtained by sewing together two static, spherically symmetric, charged black-hole metrics at their horizons. The charged wormholes are in a background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-08 Paul H. Cox , Benjamin C. Harms , Shaoqi Hou

We consider $f(R, T)$ theory of gravity, in which the gravitational Lagrangian is given by an arbitrary function of the Ricci scalar and the trace of the energy-momentum tensor, to study static spherically symmetric wormhole geometries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-03 Ayan Banerjee , M. K. Jasim , Sushant G. Ghosh

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

Weyl gravity naturally generates effective dark matter and cosmological constant terms as integration constants, eliminating the need to explicitly introduce them into the theory. Additionally, the framework permits three intriguing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-25 Roman A. Konoplya , Andrii Khrabustovskyi , Jan Kříž , Alexander Zhidenko

We introduce a novel Einstein-Rosen BTZ wormhole metric as a solution to the Einstein field equations with a negative cosmological constant and explore in detail its various phenomenological aspects. We show that the wormhole metric is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-25 Ankit Anand , Kimet Jusufi , Mendrit Latifi

The firm observational confirmation of the late-time acceleration of the universe expansion has proposed a major challenge to the theoretical foundations of cosmology and the explanation of the acceleration mechanism requires the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-20 D Wang , Xin-He Meng

A phase space is built that allows to study, classify and compare easily large classes of static spherically symmetric wormholes solutions, sustained by an isotropic perfect fluid in General Relativity. We determine the possible locations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-01 Stephane Fay

Alternative gravity is nowadays an extremely important tool to address some persistent observational issues, such as the dark sector of the universe. They can also be applied to stellar astrophysics, leading to outcomes one step ahead of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-15 P. H. R. S. Moraes , P. K. Sahoo

The low energy effective action of gravity in any even dimension generally acquires non-local terms associated with the trace anomaly, generated by the quantum fluctuations of massless fields. The local auxiliary field description of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Emil Mottola , Ruslan Vaulin