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In the present work, we construct models of static wormholes within the framework of 4-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (4D EGB) gravity an (an)isotropic energy momentum tensor (EMT) and a Maxwell field as supporting matters for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-13 Piyachat Panyasiripan , Fereshteh Felegary , Phongpichit Channuie

In this work we explore the possible existence of static, spherically symmetric and stationary, axisymmetric traversable wormholes coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics. Considering static and spherically symmetric (2+1) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Aaron V. B. Arellano , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We give a detailed account of the properties of spinning Ellis wormholes, supported by a phantom field. The general set of solutions depends on three parameters, associated with the size of the throat, the rotation and the symmetry of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Xiao Yan Chew , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

This brief review discusses the existence conditions of wormhole throats and wormholes as global configurations in general relativity under the assumptions of cylindrical and axial symmetries. It is pointed out, in particular, that wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-07 K. A. Bronnikov , M. V. Skvortsova

We construct charged wormhole solutions with an even number of asymptotically flat regions in the four-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-massless phantom scalar system via the Harrison transformation. The solutions are characterized by five…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-22 Yusuke Makita , Keisuke Izumi , Daisuke Yoshida

While wormholes may be just as good a prediction of Einstein's theory as black holes, they are subject to severe restrictions from quantum field theory. In particular, a wormhole can only be held open by violating the null energy condition,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-31 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

We seek wormholes among rotating cylindrically symmetric configurations in general relativity. Exact wormhole solutions are presented with such sources of gravity as a massless scalar field, a cosmological constant, and a scalar field with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 K. A. Bronnikov , V. G. Krechet

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

Using a new ansatz for solving the Einstein equations with a scalar field with the sign of the kinetic term inverted, I find a series of formulae to derive axial symmetric stationary exact solutions of the Phantom scalar field in general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Tonatiuh Matos

We find a new exact solution to Einstein field equations that represents a cosmological wormhole embedded in a flat Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker universe. The new metric is a generalization of a previous cosmological wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-14 Daniela Pérez , Mário Raia Neto

We discuss several properties of static, spherically symmetric wormholes with particular emphasis on the behavior of causal geodesics and the propagation of linear fields. We show there always exist null geodesics which are trapped in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-17 Olivier Sarbach , Thomas Zannias

There are a number of reasons to study wormholes with generic cosmological constant $\Lambda$. Recent observations indicate that present accelerating expansion of the universe demands $\Lambda>0$. On the other hand, some extended theories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-24 Y. Heydarzade , N. Riazi , H. Moradpour

For static, spherically symmetric space-times in general relativity (GR), a no-go theorem is proved: it excludes the existence of wormholes with flat and/or AdS asymptotic regions on both sides of the throat if the source matter is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-03 K. A. Bronnikov , K. A. Baleevskikh , M. V. Skvortsova

In this article, we construct a family of spherically symmetric thin-shell wormholes within scalar-tensor theories of gravity. In the case of wormholes symmetric across the throat, we study the matter content and analyze the stability of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre , Vasiliki Karanasou

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 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

A static spherically symmetric wormhole solution for conformal gravity in vacuum is found. The solution possesses a single integration constant which determines the size of the neck connecting two static homogeneous universes of constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-08 Julio Oliva , David Tempo , Ricardo Troncoso

We present the first results of a self-consistent solution of the semiclassical Einstein field equations corresponding to a Lorentzian wormhole coupled to a quantum scalar field. The specific solution presented here represents a wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 David Hochberg , Arkadiy Popov , Sergey V. Sushkov

We explore the possibility of dynamic wormhole geometries, within the context of nonlinear electrodynamics. The Einstein field equation imposes a contracting wormhole solution and the obedience of the weak energy condition. Furthermore, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron V. B. Arellano , Francisco S. N. Lobo

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