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This paper generalizes the static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole geometry to a rotating axially symmetric one with a time-dependent angular velocity by means of an exact solution. It was found that the violation of the weak…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

This study explores the Gaussian and the Lorentzian distributed spherically symmetric wormhole solutions in the $f(\tau, T)$ gravity. The basic idea of the Gaussian and Lorentzian noncommutative geometries emerges as the physically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-31 G. Mustafa , Mushtaq Ahmad , Ali Övgün , M. Farasat Shamir , Ibrar Hussain

A possible astrophysical object to be found in General Relativity is the wormhole. This special solution describes a topological bridge connecting points in two distinguished universes or two different points in the same universe. Despite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Moreshwar Tayde , Joao R. L. Santos , Julia N. Araujo , P. K. Sahoo

Euclidean wormholes -- geometries which connect disconnected boundaries -- present a challenge to a standard quantum mechanical interpretation of the theory. One potential resolution is that the gravitational path integral computes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-03 Netta Engelhardt , Sebastian Fischetti , Alexander Maloney

It is shown in the first part of this paper that a combined model comprising ordinary and quintessential matter can support a traversable wormhole in Einstein-Maxwell gravity. Since the solution allows zero tidal forces, the wormhole is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-04 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

Static and spherically symmetric wormhole solutions can be reconstructed in the framework of curvature based Extended Theories of Gravity. In particular, extensions of the General Relativity, in metric and curvature formalism give rise to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-23 Vittorio De Falco , Emmanuele Battista , Salvatore Capozziello , Mariafelicia De Laurentis

We study the stability of static, spherically symmetric, traversable wormholes with or without an electric charge, existing due to conformal continuations in a class of scalar-tensor theories with zero scalar field potential (so that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Bronnikov , S. V. Grinyok

A static spherically symmetric wormhole solution for conformal gravity in vacuum is found. The solution possesses a single integration constant which determines the size of the neck connecting two static homogeneous universes of constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-08 Julio Oliva , David Tempo , Ricardo Troncoso

We explore the shadow of certain class of rotating traversable wormholes within classical general relativity. The images depend on the angular momentum of the wormhole, and the inclination angle of the observer. We compare the results with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Petya G. Nedkova , Vassil Tinchev , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

This research delves into the potential existence of traversable wormholes (WHs) within the framework of modified, curvature based gravity. The modification includes linear perturbations of the matter Lagrangian and the trace of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-02 Niklas Loewer , Moreshwar Tayde , P. K. Sahoo

In this paper, we investigate how charge and modified terms affect the viability and stability of traversable wormhole geometry in the framework of $f(R,G)$ theory, where $R$ is the Ricci scalar and $G$ is the Gauss-Bonnet term. For this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-10 M. Zeeshan Gul , M. Sharif

It is shown that the general solution of classical equations of motion in two dimensional dilaton gravity proposed by Callan, Giddings, Harvey and Strominger (CGHS) includes a Lorentzian wormhole solution in addition to a black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Shin'ichi Nojiri , I. Oda

In this work wormholes in viable $f(R)$ gravity models are analysed. We are interested in exact solutions for stress-energy tensor components depending on different shape and redshift functions. Several solutions of gravitational equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-24 Petar Pavlović , Marko Sossich

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

We study the Lorentzian static traversable wormholes coupled to quadratic scalar fields. We also obtain the solutions of the scalar fields and matters in the wormhole background and find that the minimal size of the wormhole should be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. -W. Kim , S. P. Kim

In this brief report I introduce a yet another class of geometries for which semi-classical chronology protection theorems are of dubious physical reliability. I consider a ``Roman ring'' of traversable wormholes, wherein a number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Matt Visser

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

In this paper we consider a massive vector field in the background of a space-time obtained by certain Z2 quotient of the BTZ black hole. We analyse the back reaction of the matter field on the space-time geometry up to first order in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Ankit Anand , Prasanta K. Tripathy

Traversable wormhole solutions are explored in $f(\mathcal{R},\mathbb{T})$ gravity, a curvature--matter extension in which $\mathcal{R}$ is the Ricci scalar and $\mathbb{T}$ denotes the trace of the energy--momentum tensor. To generate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-02 G. G. L. Nashed , A. Eid

This study aims to investigate the physical properties of wormhole geometry within the context of $f(T,\mathcal{T})$ gravity, which serves as a teleparallel formulation of general relativity. We study a linear model,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-15 Foad Parsaei , Sara Rastgoo