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It is well known that traversable wormholes are valid solutions of the Einstein field equations, but these structures can only be maintained by violating the null energy condition. In this paper, we have obtained such wormhole solutions in…

General Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nayan Sarkar , Susmita Sarkar , Farook Rahaman , P. K. F. Kuhfittig , G S Khadekar

We perform a detailed study of the gravitational tidal Love numbers of extremal zero-temperature Kerr black holes. These coefficients are finite and exhibit the dissipative nature of these maximally spinning black holes. Upon considering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-30 Malcolm Perry , Maria J. Rodriguez

We study the geometry of a wormhole spacetime filled with anisotropic matter in the context of general relativity. In the course of the study, new static and spherically symmetric solutions, analytic and numerical ones, are found. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Youngone Lee

In the present paper we discuss properties of a model of a ring wormhole, recently proposed by Gibbons and Volkov. Such a wormhole connects two flat spacetimes which are glued through discs of the radius $a$ bounded by the string with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Valeri P. Frolov , Pavel Krtous , Andrei Zelnikov

We obtain the full set of tidal Love numbers of non-rotating black holes in an effective field theory extension of general relativity. We achieve our results using a recently introduced modified Teukolsky equation that describes the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-11 Pablo A. Cano

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

Tidal Love numbers (TLNs) characterize the response of compact objects to external tidal fields and vanish for classical Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes in general relativity. Nonvanishing TLNs therefore provide a potential observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Rui Wang , Qi-Long Shi , Wei Xiong , Peng-Cheng Li

In Newtonian gravitational theory, a tidal Love number relates the mass multipole moment created by tidal forces on a spherical body to the applied tidal field. The Love number is dimensionless, and it encodes information about the body's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-29 Taylor Binnington , Eric Poisson

In General Relativity, the tidal Love numbers of black holes vanish, implying they are resistant to tidal deformation. This "rigidity" is easily broken in the presence of higher-derivative corrections. Focusing on extremal charged black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-30 Toshifumi Noumi , Sam S. C. Wong

We investigate a new type of Schwarzschild wormhole, which relies on a 3-dimensional spacetime defect with degenerate metrics. This particular wormhole is a solution of the vacuum Einstein equations. We also study the generalized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-11 Zi-Liang 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 study radial perturbations of a wormhole in $R^2$ gravity to determine regions of stability. We also investigate massive and massless particle orbits and tidal forces in this space-time for a radially infalling observer.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-06 James B. Dent , Damien A. Easson , Thomas W. Kephart , Sara C. White

Two spherically symmetric, static Lorentzian wormholes are obtained in tetrad theory of gravitation as a solution of the equation $\rho=\rho_t=0$, where $\rho=T_{ij}u^iu^j, \rho_t=(T_{ij}-{1/2}Tg_{ij})u^iu^j$ and $u^iu_i=-1$. This equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-24 Gamal Gergess Lamee Nashed

Black holes in four-dimensional, asymptotically flat general relativity have vanishing static tidal Love numbers (TLNs), a property tied to a hidden symmetry of the perturbation equations. Within the Konoplya-Rezzolla-Zhidenko (KRZ)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Chanchal Sharma , Shuvayu Roy , Sudipta Sarkar

It is well established that black holes in four-dimensional, vacuum, general relativity exhibit vanishing static tidal Love numbers, indicating no multipolar response to the external tidal fields in the static limit. This intriguing feature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 Chiranjeeb Singha , Sumanta Chakraborty

We find the dynamical tidal response of a Kerr black hole (BH) and demonstrate its tidal Love numbers to be non-vanishing when present in a non-axisymmetric external tidal field. To leading order, they depend quadratically on the black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-27 Rajendra Prasad Bhatt , Sumanta Chakraborty , Sukanta Bose

We construct the asymptotically flat charged thin-shell wormholes of Lovelock gravity in seven dimensions by cut-and-paste technique, and apply the generalized junction conditions in order to calculate the energy-momentum tensor of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-10 M. H. Dehghani , M. R. Mehdizadeh

Black holes are believed to possess vanishing Love numbers, which implies that they do not deform in the presence of external tides. This fact has been verified in a number of scenarios, that involve tides of bosonic fields of various…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 David Pereñiguez , Edgars Karnickis

We present a traversable-wormhole solution of the gravitational field equation of General Relativity without need of exotic matter (exotic matter can, for example, have negative energy density and vanishing isotropic pressure). Instead of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-16 F. R. Klinkhamer

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