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This study aims to investigate the viability of a viable logarithmic f(R) gravity for inflation in giving wormhole solutions. We consider a static and spherically symmetric spacetime and two different shape functions. We found that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-27 Yusmantoro , Rian Julianto

It has been suggested that the cosmological constant is a variable dynamical quantity. A class of solution has been presented for the spherically symmetric space time describing wormholes by assuming the erstwhile cosmological constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Rahaman , M. Kalam , M. Sarker , A. Ghosh , B. Raychaudhuri

A design of a configuration for violation of the averaged null energy condition (ANEC) and consequently other classic energy conditions (CECs), is presented. The methods of producing effective exotic matter (EM) for a traversable wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Mohammad Mansouryar

We explore the existence of Lorentzian wormholes in the context of an effective on-brane, scalar-tensor theory of gravity. In such theories, the timelike convergence condition, which is always violated for wormholes, has contributions, via…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-28 Sayan Kar , Sayantani Lahiri , Soumitra SenGupta

Casimir energy is always indicated as a potential source to generate a Traversable Wormhole. It is also used to proof the existence of negative energy which can be built in the laboratory. However, in the scientific literature there is no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Remo Garattini

For a generic $f(R)$ which admits a polynomial expansion of at least third order (i.e. $\frac{d^{3}f}{dR^{3}}\neq 0$) we find the near-throat wormhole solution. Necessary conditions for the existence of wormholes in such $f(R)$ theories are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

For various reasons a number of authors have mooted an "exponential form" for the spacetime metric: \[ ds^2 = - e^{-2m/r} dt^2 + e^{+2m/r}\{dr^2 + r^2(d\theta^2+\sin^2\theta \, d\phi^2)\}. \] While the weak-field behaviour matches nicely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-07 Petarpa Boonserm , Tritos Ngampitipan , Alex Simpson , Matt Visser

We are presenting a quantum traversable wormhole in an exactly soluble two-dimensional model. This is different from previous works since the exotic negative energy that supports the wormhole is generated from the quantization of classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Won Tae Kim , Edwin J. Son , Myung Seok Yoon

Wormhole and time machine are very interesting objects in general relativity. However, they need exotic matters which are impossible in classical level to support them. But if we introduce the quantum effects of gravity into the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 Li-Fang Li , Jian-Yang Zhu

We investigate static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole solutions in the framework of $f(Q)$ gravity by considering a power-law model of the form $f(Q)=\gamma(-Q)^m$. By adopting an anisotropic matter distribution and imposing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Jaydeep Goswami , Rupam Jyoti Borah , Umananda Dev Goswami

We obtain traversable wormhole and time machine solutions of the field equations of an alternative of gravity with non-minimally curvature-matter coupling. Our solutions exhibit a non-trivial redshift function and allow for matter that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Orfeu Bertolami , Ricardo Zambujal Ferreira

A fundamental property of Morris-Thorne wormholes is the so-called flare-out condition that automatically results in a violation of the null energy condition (NEC) in classical general relativity. By contrast, in $f(R)$ modified gravity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-20 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

In the standard approach to studying wormhole geometry, the presence of dark energy is unavoidable to ensure traversability. The dark energy provides the negative gravity effect to keep the throat open. The question we analyse is whether…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-26 Ayan Banerjee , Sudan Hansraj , Anirudh Pradhan , Abdelghani Errehymy

A possible cause of the late-time cosmic acceleration is an exotic fluid with an equation of state lying within the phantom regime, i.e., $w=p/\rho <-1$. The latter violates the null energy condition, which is a fundamental ingredient in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-12 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Foad Parsaei , Nematollah Riazi

The firm observational confirmation of the late-time acceleration of the universe expansion has proposed a major challenge to the theoretical foundations of cosmology and the explanation of the acceleration mechanism requires the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-20 D Wang , Xin-He Meng

We extend previous proofs that violations of the null energy condition (NEC) are a generic and universal feature of traversable wormholes to completely non-symmetric time-dependent wormholes. We show that the analysis can be phrased purely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 David Hochberg , Matt Visser

We present an analysis of the classic wormhole geometries based on conformal Weyl gravity, rather than standard general relativity. The main characteristics of the resulting traversable wormholes remain the same as in the seminal study by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-26 Gabriele U. Varieschi , Kellie L. Ault

Various spacetime candidates for traversable wormholes, regular black holes, and `black-bounces' are presented and thoroughly explored in the context of the gravitational theory of general relativity. All candidate spacetimes belong to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-30 Alex Simpson

In this article we study spherical thin-shell wormholes in five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We show that configurations supported by non-exotic matter, that is matter satisfying the weak energy condition, are possible at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Emilio Rubín de Celis , Claudio Simeone

In this work we wonder if there is a way to generate a wormhole (WH) in nature using "normal" matter. In order to give a first answer to this question, we study a massless scalar field coupled to an electromagnetic one (dilatonic field)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-09 Tonatiuh Matos , Galaxia Miranda