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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

Space-time wormholes were introduced in Wheeler's idea of space-time foam. Traversible wormholes as defined by Morris & Thorne became popular as potential short cuts across the universe and even time machines. More recently, the author…

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

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

We provide a 2-fluid immiscible matter source that supplies fuel to construct wormhole spacetime. The exact wormhole solutions are found in the model having, besides real matter or ordinary matter, some quintessence matter along with charge…

General Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 Safiqul Islam , Md Arif Shaikh , Tapas Kumar Das , Farook Rahaman , Monsur Rahaman

General relativity has achieved remarkable experimental and observational success. Critically, recent data from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA, Event Horizon Telescope, and GRAVITY collaborations are often credited with \textit{demonstrating} the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Thiago T. Bergamaschi

Although wormholes can be treated as topological objects in spacetime and from a global point-of-view, a precise definition of what a wormhole throat is and where it can be located can be developed and treated entirely in terms of local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 David Hochberg , Matt Visser

Wormhole solutions to the equations of general relativity have some spectacular local and global properties. As these unusual features are not explicitly forbidden by known physics, wormholes are considered in various astrophysical and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Daniel R. Terno

We obtain a large class of Lorentzian wormhole spacetimes in scalar-tensor gravity, for which the matter stress energy does satisfy the weak energy condition. Our constructions have zero Ricci scalar and an everywhere finite, non-zero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-12 Rajibul Shaikh , Sayan Kar

Wormholes are non-trivial topological structures that arise as exact solutions to Einstein's field equations, theoretically connecting distinct regions of spacetime via a throat-like geometry. While static traversable wormholes necessarily…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Mahdi Kord Zangeneh , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We analyze the possibility of black holes pair creation induced by three dimensional wormholes. Although this spacetime configuration is nowadays hard to suppose, it can be very important in the early universe, when the wormhole spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Remo Garattini

We examine the compatibility of the mirror matter concept with the non-orientable wormholes. If any particle (or classical object) is traversing through the non-orientable wormhole, it turns into a corresponding mirror particle and vice…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-04 V. I. Dokuchaev , Yu. N. Eroshenko

Higher-dimensional black holes have long been considered within the context of brane worlds. Recently, it was shown that the brane-world ethos also permits the consideration of higher-dimensional wormholes. When such a wormhole, preexisting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-08-02 Enrico Rodrigo

While wormholes may be just as good a prediction of Einstein's theory as black holes, they are subject to severe restrictions from quantum field theory. In particular, a wormhole can only be held open by violating the null energy condition,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-31 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

Morris-Thorne wormholes with a cosmological constant \Lambda have been studied extensively, even allowing \Lambda to be replaced by a space variable scalar. These wormholes cannot exist, however, if \Lambda is both space and time dependent.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-21 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

The effects that the present accelerating expansion of the universe has on the size and shape of Lorentzian wormholes and ringholes are considered. It is shown that, quite similarly to how it occurs for inflating wormholes, relative to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pedro F. Gonzalez-Diaz

This essay discusses recent progress on Euclidean wormholes as candidate contributions to the Universe's initial quantum state. The comparison with the Hartle-Hawking no-boundary proposal highlights both a conceptual affinity and genuine…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Panos Betzios , Paul Ghiringhelli , Ioannis D. Gialamas , Olga Papadoulaki

It is shown in a variant of two dimensional dilaton gravity theories that an arbitrary, localized massive source put in an initially regular spacetime gives rise to formation of the wormhole classically, without accompanying the curvature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 M. Hotta , M. Yoshimura

A new framework is proposed for general dynamic wormholes, unifying them with black holes. Both are generically defined locally by outer trapping horizons, temporal for wormholes and spatial or null for black and white holes. Thus wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Sean A. Hayward

We show that the presence of replica wormholes in the Euclidean path integral of gravity leads to a non-perturbative violation of charge conservation for any global symmetry present in the low-energy description of quantum gravity.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 Po-Shen Hsin , Luca V. Iliesiu , Zhenbin Yang

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