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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

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

It is known that Lorentzian wormholes must be threaded by matter that violates the null energy condition. We phenomenologically characterize such exotic matter by a general class of microscopic scalar field Lagrangians and formulate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 C. Armendariz-Picon

We investigate possible manifolds characterizing traversable wormholes in the presence of a scalar field minimally coupled to gravity, which has both kinetic and potential energy. The feature of traversability requires the violation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-31 R. Garattini , A. G. Tzikas

The paper entitled Unimodular Gravity Traversable Wormholes by Agrawal et al. examined the properties of barotropic wormholes without tidal forces within the framework of Unimodular Gravity. Our analysis demonstrates that their conclusion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Mauricio Cataldo , Norman Cruz

The solutions of traversable wormholes and their geometries are investigated in higher-curvature gravity with boundary terms for each case under the presence of anisotropic, isotropic and barotropic fluids in detail. For each case, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-03 M. Ilyas , Kazuharu Bamba

Wormhole solutions in General Relativity (GR) require \textit{exotic} matter sources that violate the null energy condition (NEC), and it is well known that higher-order modifications of GR and some alternative matter sources can support…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-06 Parangam Goswami , Anshuman Baruah , Atri Deshamukhya

We propose wormholes solutions by assuming space dependent equation of state parameter. Our models show that the existence of wormholes is supported by arbitrary small quantities of averaged null energy condition (ANEC) violating phantom…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-24 F. Rahaman , M. Kalam , S. Chakraborty

We present a systematic study of exact solutions for traversable wormhole geometries in a static and hyperbolic symmetric spacetime. In the conventional form of studying wormhole geometry, traversability requires the presence of exotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-25 Roberto Avalos , Ernesto Contreras , Daniel Brito , Ernesto Fuenmayor

In this work we analyze traversable wormhole spacetimes in the framework of a covariant generalization of Einstein's General Relativity known as energy-momentum squared gravity, or $f\left(R,\mathcal T\right)$ gravity, where $R$ is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-16 João Luís Rosa , Nailya Ganiyeva , Francisco S. N. Lobo

A fundamental ingredient in wormhole physics is the presence of exotic matter, which involves the violation of the null energy condition. Although a plethora of wormhole solutions have been explored in the literature, it is useful to find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Nadiezhda Montelongo Garcia , Francisco S. N. Lobo

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

A quantum inequality bound on the expectation value of the null-contracted stress tensor in an arbitrary Hadamard state is used to obtain constraints on the geometries of traversable wormholes. Particular attention is given to the wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. J. Fewster , T. A. Roman

It has been known for a long time that Morris-Thorne wormholes can only be held open by violating the null energy condition, which can be expressed in the form $\tau-\rho c^2>0$, where $\tau$ is the radial tension. Matter that violates this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-19 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

We present new traversable wormhole and non-singular black hole solutions in pure, scale-free $R^2$ gravity. These exotic solutions require no null energy condition violating or "exotic" matter and are supported only by the vacuum of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-02 Francis Duplessis , Damien A. Easson

It is a very well known fact that the energy conditions concerning traversable wormhole (WH) solutions of Einstein equations are violated. Consequently, attempts to avoid the violation of the energy conditions constitutes one of the main…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-14 Everton M. C. Abreu , Nélio Sasaki

This paper aims to investigate the possibility of physically achievable new wormhole solutions within the context of Finsler geometry by focusing on conformal motion. For this purpose, we study the barotropic linear equation of state (EoS).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Manjunath Malligawad , S. K. Narasimhamurthy , Z. Nekouee , Rajesh Kumar , Mallikarjun Y. Kumbar

In this work, we investigate static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole solutions within the framework of the extended symmetric teleparallel gravity, specifically the $\mathcal{F}(Q,\mathcal{L}_{m},\mathcal{T})$ gravity theory,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Rounak Manna , Krishna Pada Das , Ujjal Debnath

In this paper we derive new static phantom traversable wormholes by assuming a shape function with a quadratic dependence on the radial coordinate r. We mainly focus our study on wormholes sustained by exotic matter with positive energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Mauricio Cataldo , Fabian Orellana

This paper explores the effect of an extra spatial dimension on a Morris-Thorne wormhole. After proposing a suitable model, it is shown that under certain conditions, the throat of the wormhole can be threaded with ordinary matter, while…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-05 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig