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We formulate a one-parameter extension of Weyl transformations in first-order gravity and show that it defines a conformally coupled scalar sector with dynamical torsion. The construction reduces to the standard torsionless conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Luis Avilés , Omar Valdivia , Rodolfo Véliz , Carlos Vera

In this study we present evolving wormhole configurations in third-order {Lovelock} gravity and investigate the possibility that these solutions satisfy the energy conditions. Using a generalized Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh , Amir Hadi Ziaie

We discuss a proposal on how gravitational collapse of a NEC (Null Energy Condition) violating spherically symmetric fluid distribution can avoid the formation of a zero proper volume singularity and eventually lead to a Lorentzian wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Soumya Chakrabarti , Sayan Kar

We present a model for a classical, non-singular bouncing cosmology without violation of the null energy condition (NEC). The field content is General Relativity plus a real scalar field with a canonical kinetic term and only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-02 Özenç Güngör , Glenn D. Starkman

A multidimensional cosmological model with space-time consisting of $n (n \ge 2)$ Einstein spaces $M_{i}$ is investigated in the presence of a cosmological constant $\Lambda$ and a homogeneous minimally coupled scalar field $\varphi(t)$ as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 U. Bleyer , V. D. Ivashchuk , V. N. Melnikov , A. Zhuk

Recently Glavan and Lin [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 081301 (2020)] formulated the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity by re-scaling GB coupling constant as $\alpha/(D-4)$ and taking limit $D \to 4$ at the level of field equations. The GB…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-06 Kimet Jusufi , Ayan Banerjee , Sushant G. Ghosh

Wormhole solutions to the equations of general relativity have some spectacular local and global properties. As these unusual features are not explicitly forbidden by known physics, wormholes are considered in various astrophysical and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Daniel R. Terno

By replacing the scalar $\phi$ with $i\phi$ in the solution constructed in Ref\cite{Huang:2019lsl}, we obtain electrically-charged wormhole and black hole solutions in the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory, in which the scalar is a phantom…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Hyat Huang , Jinbo Yang

The renormalised vacuum expectation values of massless fermion (conventionally call it neutrino) stress-energy tensor are calculated in the static spherically-symmetrical wormhole topology. Consider the case when the derivatives of metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 V. Khatsymovsky

In the present work we investigate wormhole configurations described by a constant redshift function in Einstein-Cubic gravity ({{\sf ECG}}). We derive analytical wormhole geometries by assuming a particular equation of state ({{\sf EoS}})…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-05 Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh , Amir Hadi Ziaie

Motivated by recent proposals of possible wormhole existence in galactic halos, we analyse the cosmological evolution of wormhole solutions in modified $f(R)$ gravity. We construct a dynamical wormhole that asymptotically approaches FLRW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-24 Sebastian Bahamonde , Mubasher Jamil , Petar Pavlovic , Marko Sossich

This study aims to investigate the viability of a viable logarithmic f(R) gravity for inflation in giving wormhole solutions. We consider a static and spherically symmetric spacetime and two different shape functions. We found that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-27 Yusmantoro , Rian Julianto

We establish a general no--go theorem demonstrating that all traversable wormhole configurations in Unimodular Gravity necessarily require exotic matter. The proof relies solely on the geometric flaring-out condition, $b'(r_0) \leq 1$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Mauricio Cataldo , Norman Cruz , Patricio Salgado

We study the classical Euclidean wormholes in the context of extended theories of gravity. With no loss of generality, we use the dynamical equivalence between $f(\tilde{R})$ gravity and scalar-tensor theories to construct a point-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 F. Darabi

A static wormhole solution for gravity in vacuum is found for odd dimensions greater than four. In five dimensions the gravitational theory considered is described by the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet action where the coupling of the quadratic term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gustavo Dotti , Julio Oliva , Ricardo Troncoso

An $n$-dimensional Riemannian space is said to be of embedding class $m$ if $n+m$ is the lowest dimension of the flat space in which the given space can be embedded. A spherically symmetric spacetime of class two can be reduced to class one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-13 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

This paper presents a systematic exploration of exact solutions for electrically charged wormholes, black holes, and black bounces within the hybrid metric-Palatini gravity (HMPG) framework. HMPG combines features of the metric and Palatini…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 Gabriel I. Róis , José Tarciso S. S. Junior , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Manuel E. Rodrigues

We present wormhole solutions to Horava non-relativistic gravity theory in vacuum. We show that, if the parameter $\lambda$ is set to one, transversable wormholes connecting two asymptotically de Sitter or anti-de Sitter regions exist. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Marcelo Botta-Cantcheff , Nicolas Grandi , Mauricio Sturla

We discuss the structure of a gravitational euclidean instanton obtained through coupling of gravity to electromagnetism. Its topology at fixed $t$ is $S^1\times S^2$. This euclidean solution can be interpreted as a tunnelling to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Cavaglia' V. de Alfaro , F. de Felice

The quartic self-interacting conformal scalar field is used to construct a thin-shell wormhole satisfying all energy conditions. Accompanying the scalar field is the extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole with a positive cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-31 S. Danial Forghani , S. Habib Mazharimousavi , Mustafa Halilsoy