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We study the propagation of massless scalar waves in static, spherically symmetric Lorentz-violating wormhole spacetimes within a geometric-optical framework. Starting from a general metric characterized by an arbitrary lapse function and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Semra Gurtas Dogan , Omar Mustafa , Abdulkerim Karabulut , Abdullah Guvendi

We consider Ellis wormholes immersed in rotating matter in the form of an ordinary complex boson field. The resulting wormholes may possess full reflection symmetry with respect to the two asymptotically flat spacetime regions. However,…

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Stellar core collapse events are expected to produce gravitational waves via several mechanisms, most of which are not yet fully understood due to the current limitations in the numerical simulations of these events. In this paper, we begin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Kyle Crocker , Tanner Prestegard , Vuk Mandic , Tania Regimbau , Keith Olive , Elisabeth Vangioni

We study spherically symmetric, self-similar wormhole solutions supported by colliding streams of negative-energy null dust, and their dynamical formation. Under the assumption of self-similarity, the Einstein equations reduce to a system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Yasutaka Koga , Ryota Maeda , Daiki Saito , Daisuke Yoshida

Using the spectral method, we investigate the scalar and axial quasinormal modes (QNMs) of massive static phantom wormholes. Our results reveal the existence of purely imaginary QNMs that were not identified in previous studies, suggesting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-11 Davide Batic , Denys Dutykh

We present an analytical model for the non-spherical collapse of overdense regions out of a Gaussian random field of initial cosmological perturbations. The collapsing region is treated as an ellipsoid of constant density, acted upon by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Daniel J. Eisenstein , Abraham Loeb

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

We present results of numerical relativity simulations for the collapse of rotating magnetized white dwarfs (WDs) in three dimension, aiming at discussing the explosion dynamics and associate multi-messenger signals: gravitational waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 Takami Kuroda , Kyohei Kawaguchi , Masaru Shibata

We report on numerical simulations of critical phenomena near the threshold of black hole formation in the collapse of axisymmetric gravitational waves in vacuum. We discuss several new features of our numerical treatment, and then compare…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-26 Thomas W. Baumgarte , Carsten Gundlach , David Hilditch

We obtain one family of dynamic solutions in the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar(EMS) theory. Our solutions could describe the evolving charged black(white) hole or wormhole and its transition, including the case of black bounce/wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-14 Jinbo Yang , Hyat Huang

We construct traversable wormholes with anti-de Sitter asymptotics supported by a phantom field. These wormholes are massless and symmetric with respect to reflection of the radial coordinate $\eta \to - \eta$. Their circumferential radius…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-22 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Xiao Yan Chew , Jutta Kunz , Dong-han Yeom

We investigate the response of the traversable wormholes to the external perturbations through finding their characteristic frequencies and time-domain profiles. The considered solution describes traversable wormholes between the branes in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 R. A. Konoplya , C. Molina

We construct cylindrical, traversable wormholes with finite radii by taking into account the cut-and-paste procedure for the case of cosmic string manifolds with a positive cosmological constant. Under reasonable assumptions about the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-14 Martín G. Richarte

This paper studies gravitational collapse of a complex scalar field at the threshold for black hole formation, assuming that the collapse is spherically symmetric and continuously self-similar. A new solution of the coupled Einstein-scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-24 Eric W. Hirschmann , Douglas M. Eardley

We present an efficient numerical algorithm for evolving self-gravitating systems of dark-matter particles that leverages the assumption of spherical symmetry to reduce the nominally six-dimensional phase space to three dimensions. It can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-22 Marc Kamionkowski , Kris R. Sigurdson

If an early matter phase of the Universe existed after inflation with the proper power spectrum, enhanced density perturbations can decouple from the Hubble flow, turn around and collapse. In contrast to what happens in a radiation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-25 Ioannis Dalianis , Chris Kouvaris

In this paper, we obtain new $d$-dimensional and asymptotically flat wormhole solutions by assuming a specific form of the energy density distribution. This is addressed by considering the generalization of the so-called Dymnikova model,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 Milko Estrada , Celio R. Muniz

In this work we explore the propagation of massive scalar fields on some wormhole backgrounds. On one side, we consider the Bronnikov-Ellis wormhole solution and wormhole geometries with a non-constant redshift function by introducing a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-11 Sebastián Alfaro , P. A. González , Diego Olmos , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Yerko Vásquez

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

We present an infinite class of one-parameter scalar field extensions to the BTZ black hole in 2+1-dimensions. By virtue of the scalar charge the thin-shell wormhole supported by a linear fluid at the throat becomes stable against linear…

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