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In the homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann-Robertson-Walker minisuperspace model, it is known that there are no Euclidean wormhole solutions in the pure gravity system. Here it is demonstrated explicitly that in Taub cosmology, which is one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Hongsu Kim

The description of quantum tunnelling in the presence of gravity shows subtleties in some cases. Here we discuss wormhole production in the context of the spherically symmetric thin-shell approximation. By presenting a fully consistent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Stefano Ansoldi , Takahiro Tanaka

We discuss the relevance of quantum gravity to the frontier questions in high energy phenomenology: the problems of dark matter, dark energy, and vacuum selection as well as the problems of emergent spacetime and wormholes. Dark matter and…

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

Quantization is performed of a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe filled with a conformally invariant scalar field and a perfect fluid with equation of state $p=\alpha \rho$. A well-known discrete set of static quantum wormholes is shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 N. A. Lemos , G. A. Monerat

Wormholes -- solutions to the euclidean Einstein equations with non-trivial topology -- are usually assumed to make real contributions to amplitudes in quantum gravity. However, we find a negative mode among fluctuations about the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 V. A. Rubakov , O. Yu. Shvedov

Noncommutative geometry, an offshoot of string theory, replaces point-like structures with smeared objects and has recently been extended to higher dimensions. The purpose of this letter is to obtain wormhole solutions with this extended…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-30 Farook Rahaman , P. K. F. Kuhfittig , Saibal Ray , Safiqul Islam

We analyze the emergence of a minimal length for a large class of generalized commutation relations, preserving commutation of the position operators and translation invariance as well as rotation invariance (in dimension higher than one).…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Detournay , Cl. Gabriel , Ph. Spindel

Utilizing the Hamiltonian constraints approach, a quantum-corrected solution has been derived \cite{Zhang:2024ney}, which describes either a regular black hole or a traversable wormhole, contingent upon the value of the quantum parameter.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-30 R. A. Konoplya , O. S. Stashko

Traversable wormhole solutions in General Relativity require exotic matter sources that violate the null energy condition (NEC), and such behavior maybe avoided in modified gravity. In this study, we analyze the energy conditions for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Anshuman Baruah , Parangam Goswami , Atri Deshamukhya

Quantum gravity is likely the deepest problem facing current physics. While traditionally associated with short distance nonrenormalizability, it is evident that the long distance problem of unitarity, arising at high energies with black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-01 Steven B. Giddings

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

An $n$-dimensional Riemannian space is said to be of embedding class $m$ if $n+m$ is the lowest dimension of the flat space in which the given space can be embedded. A spherically symmetric spacetime of class two can be reduced to class one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-13 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

We show that the computational model based on local Fermionic modes in place of qubits does not satisfy local tomography and monogamy of entanglement, and has mixed states with maximal entanglement of formation. These features directly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano , Franco Manessi , Paolo Perinotti , Alessandro Tosini

In this work, we investigate static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole solutions within the framework of the extended symmetric teleparallel gravity, specifically the $\mathcal{F}(Q,\mathcal{L}_{m},\mathcal{T})$ gravity theory,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Rounak Manna , Krishna Pada Das , Ujjal Debnath

The information paradox can be realized in anti-de Sitter spacetime joined to a Minkowski region. In this setting, we show that the large discrepancy between the von Neumann entropy as calculated by Hawking and the requirements of unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Ahmed Almheiri , Thomas Hartman , Juan Maldacena , Edgar Shaghoulian , Amirhossein Tajdini

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

This paper discusses the possible existence of traversable wormholes in f(R) modified gravity while assuming a noncommutative-geometry background, as well as zero tidal forces. The first part of the paper aims for an overview via several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-28 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

We construct a specific example of a class of traversable wormholes in Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theory in four spacetime dimensions, without needing any form of exotic matter. Restricting to a model with two massive fermions in a singlet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-15 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Christian Knoll , Eugen Radu

Recent work on an approach to the geometrodynamics of cylindrical gravity waves in the presence of interacting scalar matter fields, based on the Kucha\v{r} hypertime formalism, is extended to the analogous spherically symmetric system.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 Stephen P. Braham