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We construct a model for the nucleation of a wormhole within a Lorentzian spacetime by employing techniques from topological surgery and Morse theory. In our framework, a 0-surgery process describes the neighborhood of the nucleation point…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-22 Alessandro Pisana , Barak Shoshany , Stathis Antoniou , Louis H. Kauffman , Sofia Lambropoulou

Wormholes bridging distant places of the universe are well-known solutions of general relativity. In particular, traversable wormholes which allow interstellar traveling are also popular in science fiction. However, no hint of their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-28 Shou-shan Bao , Shaoqi Hou , Hong Zhang

An approximate model of the spacetime foam is offered in which each quantum handle (wormhole) is a 5D wormhole-like solution. A spinor field is introduced for an effective description of this foam. The topological handles of the spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Dzhunushaliev

In this paper, quantum theory of a real massive scalar field in the background of a traversable wormhole is examined. The wormhole is supposed to connect two different universes; as a particular example the simplest Ellis wormhole is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-24 Mikhail N. Smolyakov

In this letter we obtain wormhole solutions from the Karmarkar condition in $f(Q)$ gravity formalism, in which $Q$ is the nonmetricity scalar. We show that the combination of such ingredients provides us the possibility of obtaining…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-09 G. Mustafa , Zinnat Hassan , P. H. R. S. Moraes , P. K. Sahoo

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

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-01 Everton M. C. Abreu , Nélio Sasaki

We present some wormhole configurations using analytic and numerical solutions of the Euclidean field equations considering Einstein Gauss Bonnet dilaton coupled interaction in the Robertson Walker metric. Analytic solutions invoking…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Gargi Biswas , B Modak

We investigate Euclidean wormholes in Einstein gravity with a massless scalar field in de Sitter space. Euclidean wormholes are possible due to the analytic continuation of the time as well as complexification of fields, where we need to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-05 Pisin Chen , Yao-Chieh Hu , Dong-han Yeom

Motivated by recent proposals of possible wormhole shape functions, we construct a wormhole shape function by employing the Karmarkar condition for static traversable wormhole geometry. The proposed shape function generates wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-07 M. Farasat Shamir , I. Fayyaz

The first junction conditions of spherically symmetric bubbles are solved for some cases, and whereby analytic models to the Einstein field equations are constructed. The effects of bubbles on the spacetime structure are studied and it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Anzhong Wang , Patricio S. Letelier

One way to explain the present acceleration of the Universe is Einstein's cosmological constant. It is quite likely, in view of some recent studies, that a time-dependent equation of state had caused the Universe to evolve from an earlier…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-03 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

This paper investigated the viable traversable wormhole solutions through Karmarkar condition in the context of $f(\mathcal{G},T)$ theory. A static spherical spacetime with anisotropic matter configuration is used to study the wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-30 M. Zeeshan Gul , M. Sharif

The problem of the passage of light through the mouth of a zero-mass wormhole and the possibility of observing the objects from another asymptotically flat space-time through the mouth of a wormhole are considered. It is shown that an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Serge V. Repin , Mikhail A. Bugaev , Igor D. Novikov , Igor D. Novikov

The question of a possibility of opening a wormhole due to the deformation of the equation of state of the matter caused by quantum gravity effects is considered. As a wormhole environment, the previously considered model of a galaxy with…

General Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Igor Nikitin

It was shown by Ford and Roman in 1996 that quantum field theory severely constrains wormhole geometries on a macroscopic scale. The first part of this paper discusses a wide class of wormhole solutions that meet these constraints. The type…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

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 some interesting work of James Lidsey, the dynamics of Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmology with positive curvature and a perfect fluid matter source is shown to be modeled in terms of a time-dependent, harmonically…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Jennie D'Ambroise , Floyd L. Williams

We exploit the parallel between dynamical black holes and cosmological spacetimes to describe the evolution of Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker universes from the point of view of an observer in terms of the dynamics of the apparent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-07 Pierre Binétruy , Alexis Helou

The construction of traversable wormholes (WHs) with a cosmological constant, $\Lambda$, introduces significant challenges and leads to non-trivial modifications of the spacetime geometry. In this work, we obtain an analytical solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Rajesh Karmakar , Xian-Hui Ge

Loop quantum cosmology (LQC) is very powerful to deal with the behavior of early universe. And the effective loop quantum cosmology gives a successful description of the universe in the semiclassical region. We consider the apparent horizon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-15 Li-Fang Li , Jian-Yang Zhu