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A fundamental property in wormhole physics is the flaring-out condition of the throat, which through the Einstein field equation entails the violation of the null energy condition. In the context of modified theories of gravity, it has also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-07 Francisco S. N. Lobo

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

We present a family of charged, traversable wormhole solutions in the presence of a cosmological constant. In de Sitter spacetime, two types of wormhole throats can exist--referred to as typical and cosmological throat--located at small and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Wonwoo Lee

Adapting and extending a suggestion due to Page, we define a wormhole throat to be a marginally anti-trapped surface, that is, a closed two-dimensional spatial hypersurface such that one of the two future-directed null geodesic congruences…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 David Hochberg , Matt Visser

We develop a semiclassical geometric framework to constrain information transfer through traversable wormholes. This study is motivated by the growing intersection between spacetime geometry and quantum information theory, specifically the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Fuat Berkin Altunkaynak , Aslı Tuncer

Traversability in relation with tides in thin-shell wormholes is revisited to investigate the possibility of improving recently noted restrictive conditions for a safe travel across a wormhole throat. We consider wormholes mathematically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-05 E. Rubín de Celis , C. Simeone

A dynamical theory of traversable wormholes is detailed in spherical symmetry. Generically a wormhole consists of a tunnel of trapped surfaces between two mouths, defined as temporal outer trapping horizons with opposite senses, in mutual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-30 Sean A. Hayward

We study linear scalar perturbations of the four-dimensional, traversable wormhole solution of Maldacena, Milekhin, and Popov(arXiv:1807.04726). The geometry is constructed by matching an asymptotically flat, near-extremal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Rajdeep Mondal , Abhishake Sadhukhan

We construct slowly rotating traversable wormholes in the presence of an anisotropic fluid. Starting from a Teo-type stationary, axisymmetric extension of the Morris-Thorne metric, we perform a slow-rotation expansion, fix a gauge that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Davide Batic , Denys Dutykh , Mark Essa Sukaiti

Firstly, we review the pointwise and averaged energy conditions, the quantum inequality and the notion of the ``volume integral quantifier'', which provides a measure of the ``total amount'' of energy condition violating matter. Secondly,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Francisco S. N. Lobo

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

It was argued in literature that traversable wormholes can exist with arbitrarily small violation of null energy conditions. We show that if the amount of exotic material near the wormhole throat tends to zero, either this leads to a horn…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 O. B. Zaslavskii

Within general relativity, we determine the energy conditions needed for the existence of a toroidal $T^2$ wormhole. For this purpose, we employ the conditions of the positiveness of the second derivatives of the relevant components of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-16 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

In this work we have formulated a new class of traversable exponential wormhole metrics. Here initially we have considered a exponential wormhole metric in which the temporal component is an exponential function of $r$ but the spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-01 Partha Pratim Nath , Debojit Sarma

We revisit the shapes of the throats of wormholes, including thin-shell wormholes (TSWs) in $2+1-$dimensions. In particular, in the case of TSWs this is done in a flat $2+1-$dimensional bulk spacetime by using the standard method of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-23 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

In the present work we analyse a dynamical wormhole solution with two fluids system (one isotropic and homogeneous and the other being inhomogeneous and anisotropic in nature) as the matter at the throat. We choose two different forms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-10 Dhritimalya Roy , Ayanendu Dutta , Bikram Ghosh , Subenoy Chakraborty

We study wormhole geometries embedded in an expanding universe within a four-scalar non-linear $\sigma$ model, where the target-space metric is identified with the spacetime Ricci tensor. In this framework, wormholes can remain stable even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Taishi Katsuragawa , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

Ellis-Bronnikov (EB) wormholes require violation of null energy conditions at the `throat'. This problem was cured by a simple modification of the `shape function', which introduces a new parameter $m\ge 2$ ($m=2$ corresponds to the EB…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-16 Vivek Sharma , Suman Ghosh

Recently several models of traversable wormholes have been proposed which require only arbitrarily small amounts of negative energy to hold them open against self-collapse. If the exotic matter is assumed to be provided by quantum fields,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 C. J. Fewster , T. A. Roman

Properties of $n(\ge 5)$-dimensional static wormhole solutions are investigated in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with or without a cosmological constant $\Lambda$. We assume that the spacetime has symmetries corresponding to the isometries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hideki Maeda , Masato Nozawa