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We numerically construct a symmetric wormhole solution in pure Einstein gravity supported by a massive $3$-form field with a potential that contains a quartic self-interaction term. The wormhole spacetimes have only a single throat and they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-22 Mariam Bouhmadi-López , Che-Yu Chen , Xiao Yan Chew , Yen Chin Ong , Dong-han Yeom

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 explore higher-dimensional asymptotically flat wormhole geometries in the framework of Gauss-Bonnet (GB) gravity and investigate the effects of the GB term, by considering a specific radial-dependent redshift function and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-06 Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh , Mahdi Kord Zangeneh , Francisco S. N. Lobo

One of the latest predictions of Einstein's theory is the existence of Wormholes (WH). In this work, we present exact solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton equations representing traversable Wormholes. These solutions satisfy the energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Leonel Bixano , Tonatiuh Matos

We study the properties of evolving wormholes able to exist in a closed Friedmann dust-filled universe and described by a particular branch of the well-known Lema{\i}tre-Tolman-Bondi solution to the Einstein equations and its generalization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Kirill A. Bronnikov , Pavel E. Kashargin , Sergey V. Sushkov

We construct the most general Ricci-flat metrics in (D+n) dimensions that preserve the R^{1,n-1}\times SO(D) isometry. The equations of motion are governed by the system of a GL(n,\R)/SO(1,n-1) scalar coset coupled to D-dimensional gravity.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 Zhao-Long Wang , Jianwei Mei , H. Lu

We present the first analysis of traversable wormhole solutions within the framework of Einstein-aether theory. We show that the corresponding field equations admit three distinct wormhole geometries, obtained by adopting three different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Hanif Golchin , Hamid R. Bakhtiarizadeh , Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh

Two new exact analytical solutions of the euclidean Einstein equations for a minimal massless scalar field and negative cosmological constant have been obtained. These solutions are given in terms of Jacobian elliptic or circular functions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-14 P. F. González-Díaz

In this paper new exact solutions in eight dimensional Lovelock theory will be presented. These solutions are vacuum static wormhole, black hole and generalized Bertotti-Robinson space-times with nontrivial torsion. All the solutions have a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Fabrizio Canfora , Alex Giacomini

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

Static solutions representing wormhole configurations in Einstein-Cartan theory ({{\sf ECT}}) in the presence of electric charge are obtained. The solutions are described by a constant redshift function with matter content consisting of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-26 Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh , Amir Hadi Ziaie

In this work, we consider the possibility of expanding wormholes in higher-dimensions, which is an important ingredient of modern theories of fundamental physics. An important motivation is that non-trivial topological objects such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-30 Mahdi Kord Zangeneh , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Nematollah Riazi

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

In this paper, exact wormhole solutions in the context of $f(R)$ theory of gravity are investigated. Since the Einstein field equations are modified in 3+1 dimensions in the $f(R)$ theory of gravity, we have studied some possible solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-15 Foad Parsaei , Sara Rastgoo

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

We review a new traversable-wormhole solution of the gravitational field equation of general relativity without exotic matter. Instead of having exotic matter to keep the wormhole throat open, the solution relies on a 3-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-25 Frans R. Klinkhamer

We construct regular multi-wormhole solutions to a gravitating $\sigma$ model in three space-time dimensions, and extend these solutions to cylindrical traversable wormholes in four and five dimensions. We then discuss the possibility of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Gérard Clément

In [P. Kanti, B. Kleihaus, J. Kunz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 271101 (2011)] it was shown that the four-dimensional Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet theory allows for wormholes without introducing any exotic matter. The numerical solution for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-28 M. A. Cuyubamba , R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

We consider wormhole geometries subject to a gravitational action consisting of non-linear powers of the Ricci scalar. Specifically, wormhole throats are studied in the case where Einstein gravity is supplemented with a Ricci-squared and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Furey , A. DeBenedictis

A wormhole solution in Newtonian gravitation, enhanced through an equation relating the Ricci scalar to the mass density, is presented. The wormhole inhabits a spherically symmetric curved space, with one throat and two asymptotically flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-24 José P. S. Lemos , Paulo Luz