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We study thermodynamics of dynamical traversable wormholes. These wormholes are investigated in the background of different cosmological models, with and without the cosmological constant, and which include the power-law and exponential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-23 Mudassar Rehman , Khalid Saifullah

Various spacetime candidates for traversable wormholes, regular black holes, and `black-bounces' are presented and thoroughly explored in the context of the gravitational theory of general relativity. All candidate spacetimes belong to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-30 Alex Simpson

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

In this paper I present a spacetime of two open universes connected by a Lorentzian wormhole. The spacetime has the following features: (1) It can exactly solve the Einstein equations; (2) The weak energy condition is satisfied everywhere;…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Li-Xin Li

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

The present work examines whether evolving wormhole solution is possible or not in $f(R,T)$ modified gravity theory. In the background of inhomogeneous FLRW type wormhole configuration the field equations are investigated for different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-11 Dhritimalya Roy , Ayanendu Dutta , Bikram Ghosh , Subenoy Chakraborty

Dynamical wormholes in higher dimensions which admit flat emergent universe (EU) model is presented. The EU model is free from initial singularity with other observed features of the universe. The basic assumption of EU model was that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-11 B. C. Paul

A class of exact solutions of the Einstein field equations representing non-static wormholes that obey the {\em weak and dominant energy conditions } is presented. Hence, in principle, these wormholes can be built with less exotic matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-07 Anzhong Wang , Patricio S. Letelier

This paper investigates static wormhole solutions through Noether symmetry approach in the context of energy-momentum squared gravity. This newly developed proposal resolves the singularity of big-bang and yields feasible cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-12 M. Sharif , M. Zeeshan Gul

We discuss the properties of Lorentzian wormholes in dilatonic Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory in four spacetime dimensions. These wormholes do not need any form of exotic matter for their existence. A subset of these wormholes is shown to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Panagiota Kanti , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

It has recently been shown that traversable wormholes may be supported by phantom energy. In this work phantom wormhole geometries are modelled by matching an interior traversable wormhole solution, governed by the equation of state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Francisco S. N. Lobo

In this article, we study the possibility of sustaining a static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole geometries admitting conformal motion in Einstein gravity, which presents a more systematic approach to search a relation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-01 Piyali Bhar , Farook Rahaman , Tuhina Manna , Ayan Banerjee

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

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 consider a scalar field with a negative kinetic term minimally coupled to gravity. We obtain an exact non-static spherically symmetric solution which describes a wormhole in cosmological setting. The wormhole is shown to connect two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 S. V. Sushkov , S. -W. Kim

Bubble universes and traversable wormholes in general relativity can be realized as two sides of the same concept. To exemplify, we find, display, and study in a unified manner a Minkowski-Minkowski closed universe and a Minkowski-Minkowski…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-20 José P. S. Lemos , Paulo Luz

We study the static and spherically symmetric wormhole spacetime configurations at present time in a viscous universe. Considering three classes of viscous models, i.e., bulk viscosity as a function of Hubble constant $H_0$, present cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-10 Deng Wang

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 investigate whether black holes can persist through the bounce with a minimal scale factor in a non-singular cosmology, whereby black holes from a previous contracting phase survive into the current expanding one. We do so by studying a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-22 Balkar Yildirim , Alan Albert Coley , Diego Fernando López

We consider rotating wormhole solutions in general relativity supported by a complex non-phantom spinor field (which provides a nontrivial spacetime topology) and electromagnetic fields. The solutions are asymmetric, regular, asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev