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We provide a new matter source that supplies fuel to construct wormhole spacetime. The exact wormhole solutions are found in the model having, besides real matter, an anisotropic dark energy. We have shown that the exotic matters that are…

General Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Farook Rahaman , Saibal Ray , Safiqul Islam

A general class of solutions is obtained which describe a spherically symmetric wormhole system. The presence of arbitrary functions allows one to describe infinitely many wormhole systems of this type. The source of the stress-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. DeBenedictis , A. Das

The wormhole solution could be found by solving the Einstein field equations with violating the null energy condition (NEC). We represent wormhole solutions in $\kappa(R,T)$ gravity in two different ways. At first, we find the shape…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-27 Susmita Sarkar , Nayan Sarkar , Farook Rahaman , Y Aditya

Unphysical equations of state result from the unrestricted use of the Synge G-trick of running the Einstein field equations backwards; in particular often this results in $\rho + p < 0$ which implies negative inertial mass density, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 George F R Ellis , David Garfinkle

The Weak Gravity Conjecture is a nontrivial conjecture about quantum gravity that makes sharp, falsifiable predictions which can be checked in a broad range of string theory examples. However, in the presence of massless scalar fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-02 Ben Heidenreich , Matthew Reece , Tom Rudelius

Static traversable wormhole solutions of the Einstein equations require ``exotic'' matter which violates the weak energy condition. The vacuum stress-energy of quantized fields has been proposed as the source for this matter. Using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Brett E. Taylor , William A. Hiscock , Paul R. Anderson

Wormholes are speculative structures linking disparate space-time points. Their geometry can be obtained by solving Einstein equations with tolerating the violation of null energy conditions. Recently, many researchers have studied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-10 J. Sadeghi , B. Pourhassan , S. Noori Gashti , S. Upadhyay

To date, many exotic predictions of Einstein's equations have been corroborated, with one exception: wormholes (WHs). In this work, we analyse a new exact solution combination to the Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton or Phantom equations, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-18 Leonel Bixano , Tonatiuh Matos

The gravitational path integral can compute inner products between different states of open and closed universes. To have a well-defined Hilbert space, these inner products should be positive semi-definite, which is not manifest in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Gabriele Di Ubaldo , Luca V. Iliesiu , Henry W. Lin , Cynthia Yan

We examine the possibility of static wormhole solutions in the vacuum Brans-Dicke theory both in the original (Jordan) frame and in the conformally rescaled (Einstein) frame. It turns out that, in the former frame, wormholes exist only in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-30 K. K. Nandi , B. Bhattacharjee , S. M. K. Alam , J. Evans

We study the process of quantum tunnelling in self-interacting scalar field theories with non-minimal coupling to gravity. In these theories gravitational instantons can develop a neck -- a feature prohibited in theories with minimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 Lorenzo Battarra , George Lavrelashvili , Jean-Luc Lehners

This paper discusses the possible existence of traversable wormholes in f(R) modified gravity while assuming a noncommutative-geometry background, as well as zero tidal forces. The first part of the paper aims for an overview via several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-28 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

An analytical solution representing traversable asymptotically flat and symmetric wormholes was obtained without adding exotic matter in two different theories independently: in the Einstein-Maxwell-Dirac theory and in the second…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-08 M. S. Churilova , R. A. Konoplya , Z. Stuchlik , A. Zhidenko

Instanton and wormhole solutions are constructed in a d-dimensional gravity theory with an axion-dilaton pair of scalar fields. We discuss the cases of vanishing, positive and negative cosmological constant.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Michael Gutperle , Wafic Sabra

Wormholes that meet the flare-out condition violate the weak energy condition in classical general relativity. The purpose of this note is to show that even a slight modification of the gravitational theory could, under certain conditions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-03 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

The present work investigates the interrelation between the validity (or violation) of the cosmic no-hair conjecture and the existence (or non-existence) of wormholes, both in Einstein's Gravity and in modified gravity theories. It is found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-17 Dhritimalya Roy , Ayanendu Dutta , Subenoy Chakraborty

In this work, we present novel analytical solutions for static and spherically symmetric wormhole geometries threaded by an anisotropic distribution of matter conformally coupled to a scalar ghost field. We explore the main features of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-12 Bruno J. Barros , Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Francisco S. N. Lobo

In this work, we construct traversable wormhole geometries in the context of f(R) modified theories of gravity. We impose that the matter threading the wormhole satisfies the energy conditions, so that it is the effective stress-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-12 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Miguel A. Oliveira

A unified framework for black holes and traversible wormholes is described, where both are locally defined by outer trapping horizons, two-way traversible for wormholes and one-way traversible for black or white holes. In a two-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sean A. Hayward

Traversible wormhole space-times are found as static, spherically symmetric solutions to the Einstein equations with ingoing and outgoing pure ghost radiation, i.e. pure radiation with negative energy density. Switching off the radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Sean A. Hayward