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We compute the graviton one loop contribution to a classical energy in a traversable wormhole background. Such a contribution is evaluated by means of a variational approach with Gaussian trial wave functionals. A zeta function…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Remo Garattini

We calculate the vacuum average value of the field square and the stress-energy tensor of a massive scalar field, with non-minimal coupling $\xi$ to the curvature in the short-throat flat-space wormhole background. The obtained results are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 V. B. Bezerra , E. R. Bezerra de Mello , N. R. Khusnutdinov , S. V. Sushkov

We investigate the possibility of obtaining traversable wormholes supported by phantom scalar fields in Lorentz-violating gravity with an antisymmetric rank-2 tensor with a non-zero vacuum expectation value non-minimally coupled to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-13 Renan B. Magalhães , Leandro A. Lessa , Manoel M. Ferreira

The theoretical construction of a traversable wormhole proposed by Morris and Thorne maintains complete control over the geometry by assigning both the shape and redshift functions, thereby leaving open the determination of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-27 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

Static, spherically symmetric, traversable wormhole solutions with electric or magnetic charges are shown to exist in general relativity in the presence of scalar fields nonminimally coupled to gravity. These wormholes, however, turn out to…

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

A thin-shell wormhole is theoretically constructible by surgically grafting together two Schwarzschild spacetimes using the so-called cut-and-paste technique. By describing such a wormhole as the limiting case of a spherical shell, it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-07 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

Models of static wormholes are investigated in the framework of $f(\textit{R}, \textit{T})$ gravity ($\textit{R}$ being the curvature scalar, and $\textit{T}$ the trace of the energy momentum tensor). An attempt to link the energy density…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-31 Emilio Elizalde , Martiros Khurshudyan

In quadratic gravity, the junction conditions are six and permit the appearance of double layer thin shells. Double layers arise typically in theories with dipoles, i.e., two opposite charges, such as electromagnetic theories, and appear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-12 Joao Luís Rosa , Rui André , José P. S. Lemos

A basic constraint to be satisfied by Brans class I solution for being a traversible wormhole is derived. It is argued that the solution could be a wormhole analogue of the Horowitz-Ross naked black hole. It is further demonstrated that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-25 Amrita Bhattacharya , Ilnur Nigmatzyanov , Ramil Izmailov , Kamal K. Nandi

We consider wormhole geometries subject to a gravitational action consisting of non-linear powers of the Ricci scalar. Specifically, wormhole throats are studied in the case where Einstein gravity is supplemented with a Ricci-squared and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Furey , A. DeBenedictis

We briefly discuss some of the known and new properties of rotating geometries that are relevant to this work. We generalize the analytical method of superposition of fields, known for generating nonrotating solutions, and apply it to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-07 Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou

Adapting and extending a suggestion due to Page, we define a wormhole throat to be a marginally anti-trapped surface, that is, a closed two-dimensional spatial hypersurface such that one of the two future-directed null geodesic congruences…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 David Hochberg , Matt Visser

In this article, we construct a family of spherically symmetric thin-shell wormholes within scalar-tensor theories of gravity. In the case of wormholes symmetric across the throat, we study the matter content and analyze the stability of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre , Vasiliki Karanasou

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 static spherically symmetric traversable wormholes are analysed in the Einstein- Cartan theory of gravitation. In particular, we computed the torsion tensor for matter fields with different spin S = 0; 1/2; 1; 3/2. Interestingly, only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-12 Emmanuele Battista , Elisabetta Di Grezia , Mattia Manfredonia , Gennaro Miele

We consider Ellis wormholes immersed in rotating matter in the form of an ordinary complex boson field. The resulting wormholes may possess full reflection symmetry with respect to the two asymptotically flat spacetime regions. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-08 Christian Hoffmann , Theodora Ioannidou , Sarah Kahlen , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

The geometry of a spacetime containing a wormhole generated by a spherically symmetric electric field is investigated in detail. These solutions arise in high-energy extensions of General Relativity formulated within the Palatini approach…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-09 Gonzalo J. Olmo , D. Rubiera-Garcia , A. Sanchez-Puente

The self-force of the electromagnetic charge in the space-time of a wormhole with an infinitely short throat is calculated. It is assumed that the charge is a source of an electromagnetic field that is in non-minimal connection with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-13 O. Aslan , A. Popov

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

In this work, we derive an exact vacuum solution to the Einstein field equations that depends on three constant parameters: the throat radius $r_0$, a parameter $q$, which is closely associated with the Komar mass, and a parameter $s$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 I. A. Sarmiento-Alvarado , Leonel Bixano , Tonatiuh Matos