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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

An extended gravity theory is used to explore the possibility of non-exotic matter traversable wormholes. In the extended gravity theory, additional terms linear and quadratic in the trace of the energy momentum tensor are considered in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-10 S. K. Tripathy , D. Nayak , B. Mishra , D. Behera , S. K. Sahu

We study static traversable wormholes obtained by Morris and Thorne in general relativity (GR) in the framework of a modified theory of gravity. The modified gravitational action $f(R,T)$ is a function of the Ricci scalar ($R$) and of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 A Chanda , S Dey , B C Paul

Motivated by recent proposals of possible wormhole shape functions, we construct a wormhole shape function by employing the Karmarkar condition for static traversable wormhole geometry. The proposed shape function generates wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-07 M. Farasat Shamir , I. Fayyaz

In this work, we investigate static and spherically symmetric black hole solutions in $f(R,T)$ gravity, where $R$ is the curvature scalar and $T$ is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor, coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics (NLED). To…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-25 Gabriel I. Róis , José Tarciso S. S. Junior , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Manuel E. Rodrigues , Tiberiu Harko

The well-known problem of wormholes in general relativity (GR) is the necessity of exotic matter, violating the Weak Energy Condition (WEC), for their support. This problem looks easier if, instead of island-like configurations, one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 K. A. Bronnikov , S. V. Bolokhov , M. V. Skvortsova

We present a wormhole construction in the framework of the $f(R,T)$ extended gravity theory, with $R$ being the Ricci curvature scalar and $T$ the trace of the energy-momentum tensor, in the case in which the energy-momentum tensor is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-07 Marcelo Montenegro Lapola

We present new traversable wormhole and non-singular black hole solutions in pure, scale-free $R^2$ gravity. These exotic solutions require no null energy condition violating or "exotic" matter and are supported only by the vacuum of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-02 Francis Duplessis , Damien A. Easson

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

In this work, the study of traversable wormholes in $f(R)$ gravity with the function $f(R)=R+\alpha R^n$, where $\alpha$ and $n$ are arbitrary constants, is taken into account. The shape function $b(r)=\frac{r}{\exp(r-r_0)}$, proposed by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-29 Nisha Godani , Gauranga C. Samanta

We consider the equations of motion of an anisotropic space-time in $f(T)$ theory, where $T$ is the torsion. New spherically symmetric solutions of black holes and wormholes are obtained with a constant torsion and the cases for which the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Hamani Daouda , Manuel E. Rodrigues , M. J. S. Houndjo

In this work, we analyse static spherically symmetric solutions in the framework of mimetic gravity, an extension of general relativity where the conformal degree of freedom of gravity is isolated in a covariant fashion. Here we extend…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-13 Ratbay Myrzakulov , Lorenzo Sebastiani , Sunny Vagnozzi , Sergio Zerbini

In the present work, a new shape function is proposed inside a modified $f(R)$ gravity and General Relativity in wormhole (WH) geometry. The shape function obeyed all the desired conditions of WH geometry. The equation of state (EoS)…

General Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Ambuj Kumar Mishra , Umesh Kumar Sharma

In this paper, we investigate the existence of asymptotically flat wormhole geometries within the framework of Rastall-Rainbow modified gravity, a synthesis of two distinct theoretical models: Rastall theory and the Rainbow description. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-12 Takol Tangphati , C. R. Muniz , Anirudh Pradhan , Ayan Banerjee

The present work is an attempt to find possible traversable wormhole solutions in static spherically symmetric space-time supported by anisotropic matter field. Part of the work could be considered as a generalization of the work in Phys.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-11 Shibaji Halder , Subhra Bhattacharya , Subenoy Chakraborty

In this work, spherically symmetric thin-shell wormholes with a conformally invariant Maxwell field for $N$-dimensional $F(R)$ gravity and constant scalar curvature $R$ are built. Two cases are considered: symmetric wormholes and asymmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-13 Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre

Morris and Thorne \cite{morris1} proposed traversable wormholes, hypothetical connecting tools, using the concept of Einstein's general theory of relativity. In this paper, the modification of general relativity (in particular $f(R,T)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-05 Nisha Godani , Gauranga C. Samanta

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

The problem of the electrostatics in conical wormholes is revisited, now improving the background geometries with asymptotical flatness. The electric self-force on a point charge placed at different regions in the spacetime of a conical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-17 E. Rubín de Celis , C. Simeone

This study discusses the development of some particular static wormhole models in the background of an extended $f(Q)$ gravity theory. Wormhole solutions are derived by considering the radial pressure to admit an equation of state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Tanmoy Chowdhury , Prabir Rudra , Tandrima Chowdhury , Farook Rahaman