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Traversable wormholes have traditionally been viewed as intrinsically topological entities in some multiply connected spacetime. Here, we show that topology is too limited a tool to accurately characterize a generic traversable wormhole: in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-30 David Hochberg , Matt Visser

We construct static, spherically symmetric, charged traversable wormhole solutions to the Einstein--Maxwell equations, supported by bidirectional (ingoing and outgoing) null dust with negative energy, and discuss a scenario for their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Yasutaka Koga , Ryota Maeda , Daiki Saito , Keiya Uemichi , Daisuke Yoshida

Traversable wormholes (TWHs) remain one of the most intriguing predictions of General Relativity (GR), offering passage through space-time. However, their existence requires the violation of the null energy condition, making their detection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-18 Subenoy Chakraborty , Madhukrishna Chakraborty

We present the simplest topological classification of wormholes and demonstrate that in open Friedmann models the genus $n\geq 1$ wormholes are stable and do not require the presence of exotic forms of matter, or any modification of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-09 A. A. Kirillov E. P. Savelova

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

Suppose, the Universe comes into existence (as classical spacetime) already with an empty spherically symmetric macroscopic wormhole present in it. Classically the wormhole would evolve into a part of the Schwarzschild space and thus would…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Krasnikov

We review recent works on the possibility for eternal existence of thin-shell wormholes on Einstein and Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We introduce thin-shell wormholes that are categorized into a class of traversable wormhole solutions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-02 Takafumi Kokubu , Tomohiro Harada

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

The Einstein-Rosen "bridge" wormhole solution proposed in the classic paper [1] does not satisfy the vacuum Einstein equations at the wormhole throat. We show that the fully consistent formulation of the original Einstein-Rosen "bridge"…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-29 Eduardo Guendelman , Alexander Kaganovich , Emil Nissimov , Svetlana Pacheva

This paper explores static wormhole solutions in f(Q,T) theory, where Q is the non-metricity and T is the trace of energy-momentum tensor. We derive the field equations that describe gravitational phenomena in the existence of non-metricity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-07 M. Zeeshan Gul , M. Sharif , Shajee Shahid , Faisal Javed

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

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

We present the gravity description of evaporating black holes that end up with eternal traversable wormholes where every would-be behind horizon degree is available in asymptotic regions. The transition is explicitly realized by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-28 Dongsu Bak , Chanju Kim , Sang-Heon Yi

In [J. Blazquez-Salcedo, C. Knoll, E. Radu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126 (2021) no.10, 101102] asymptotically flat traversable wormhole solutions were obtained in the Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theory without using phantom matter. The normalizable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-07 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

When Morris and Thorne first proposed the possible existence of traversable wormholes, they adopted the following strategy: maintain complete control over the geometry, thereby leaving open the determination of the stress-energy tensor. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-24 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell wormholes are asymptotically flat static wormhole solutions in general relativity that do not make use of exotic matter. The asymmetric static solutions are smooth, are regular everywhere, and violate the null energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-13 Ben Kain

Wormholes are outstanding solutions of Einstein's General Relativity. They were worked out in the late 1980's by Morris and Thorne, who have figured out a recipe that wormholes must obey in order to be traversable, that is, safely crossed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 A. S. Agrawal , B. Mishra , P. H. R. S. Moraes

Wormholes are hypothetical shortcuts in spacetime that in General Relativity unavoidably violate all of the pointwise energy conditions. In this paper, we consider several wormhole spacetimes that, as opposed to the standard \emph{designer}…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-19 Cecilia Bejarano , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

We show explicitly that traversable wormholes requiring exotic matter in 4-dimensions nevertheless have acceptable stress-tensors obeying reasonable energy conditions in higher dimensions if the wormholes are regarded as being embedded in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 W. F. Kao , Chopin Soo

It was shown by Ford and Roman in 1996 that quantum field theory severely constrains wormhole geometries on a macroscopic scale. The first part of this paper discusses a wide class of wormhole solutions that meet these constraints. The type…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig