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We consider four-dimensional wormholes immersed in bosonic matter. While their existence is based on the presence of a phantom field, many of their interesting physical properties are bestowed upon them by an ordinary complex scalar field,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 Christian Hoffmann , Theodora Ioannidou , Sarah Kahlen , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

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

The existence of even the simplest magnetized wormholes may lead to observable consequences. In the case where both the wormhole and the magnetic field around its mouths are static and spherically symmetric, and gas in the region near the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-01 Mikhail Piotrovich , Serguei Krasnikov , Stanislava Buliga , Tinatin Natsvlishvili

The vacuum polarization of the quantized scalar field with non-conformal coupling $\xi$ on the long throat of a wormhole background is calculated. It is shown that the stress-energy tensor of vacuum fluctuations in considered spacetime is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-18 A. Popov

Multidimensional cosmological, static spherically symmetric and Euclidean configurations are described in a unified way for gravity interacting with several dilatonic fields and antisymmetric forms, associated with electric and magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Bronnikov

We numerically construct a symmetric wormhole solution in pure Einstein gravity supported by a massive $3$-form field with a potential that contains a quartic self-interaction term. The wormhole spacetimes have only a single throat and they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-22 Mariam Bouhmadi-López , Che-Yu Chen , Xiao Yan Chew , Yen Chin Ong , Dong-han Yeom

We discuss the peculiarities of gravitational lensing by spherically symmetric wormholes if they are not symmetric with respect to their throats. It is noticed, in particular, that wormholes always contain the so-called photon spheres, near…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-20 K. A. Bronnikov , K. A. Baleevskikh

We seek wormholes among rotating cylindrically symmetric configurations in general relativity. Exact wormhole solutions are presented with such sources of gravity as a massless scalar field, a cosmological constant, and a scalar field with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 K. A. Bronnikov , V. G. Krechet

Novel wormholes are obtained in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory for several coupling functions. The wormholes may feature a single-throat or a double-throat geometry and do not demand any exotic matter. The scalar field may…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-22 Georgios Antoniou , Athanasios Bakopoulos , Panagiota Kanti , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

We study Euclidean wineglass wormholes, which mediate the nucleation of inflationary spacetimes from an existing spacetime with asymptotically flat or Anti-de Sitter regions. These wormholes are distinguished by the presence of a local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 George Lavrelashvili , Jean-Luc Lehners

A spherically symmetric wormhole in Newtonian gravitation in curved space, enhanced with a connection between the mass density and the Ricci scalar, is presented. The wormhole, consisting of two connected asymptotically flat regions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-23 Paulo Luz , José P. S. Lemos

In this article, we construct a family of spherically symmetric thin-shell wormholes within scalar-tensor theories of gravity. In the case of wormholes symmetric across the throat, we study the matter content and analyze the stability of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre , Vasiliki Karanasou

We consider wormhole geometries subject to a gravitational action consisting of non-linear powers of the Ricci scalar. Specifically, wormhole throats are studied in the case where Einstein gravity is supplemented with a Ricci-squared and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Furey , A. DeBenedictis

We construct cylindrical, traversable wormholes with finite radii by taking into account the cut-and-paste procedure for the case of cosmic string manifolds with a positive cosmological constant. Under reasonable assumptions about the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-14 Martín G. Richarte

It is shown that the existence of static, cylindrically symmetric wormholes does not require violation of the weak or null energy conditions near the throat, and cylindrically symmetric wormhole geometries can appear with less exotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-30 Kirill A. Bronnikov , José P. S. Lemos

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

In 1921 Bach and Weyl derived the method of superposition to construct new axially symmetric vacuum solutions of General Relativity. In this paper we extend the Bach-Weyl approach to non-vacuum configurations with massless scalar fields.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 A. I. Egorov , P. E. Kashargin , Sergey V. Sushkov

From physics standpoint exotic matter problem is a major difficulty in thin-shell wormholes (TSWs) with spherical / cylindrical throat topologies. We aim to circumvent this handicap by considering angular dependent throats in…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

We study static, spherically symmetric mixed configurations with a nontrivial (wormhole) spacetime topology provided by the presence of two interacting ghost scalar fields. Wormhole is assumed to be filled by a perfect relativistic neutron…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-08 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev , Ajnur Urazalina

We study the stability of different higher dimensional thin--shell wormholes (HDTSW) in general relativity with a cosmological constant. We show that a $d$--dimensional thin--shell wormhole surrounded by quintessence can have three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-15 Ayan Banerjee , Kimet Jusufi , Sebastian Bahamonde