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We consider stationary, cylindrically symmetric configurations in general relativity and formulate necessary conditions for the existence of rotating cylindrical wormholes. It is shown that in a comoving reference frame the rotational part…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-12 Kirill A. Bronnikov , Vladimir G. Krechet , José P. S. Lemos

We present a systematic study of exact solutions for traversable wormhole geometries in a static and hyperbolic symmetric spacetime. In the conventional form of studying wormhole geometry, traversability requires the presence of exotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-25 Roberto Avalos , Ernesto Contreras , Daniel Brito , Ernesto Fuenmayor

We investigate static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole solutions in the framework of $f(Q)$ gravity by considering a power-law model of the form $f(Q)=\gamma(-Q)^m$. By adopting an anisotropic matter distribution and imposing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Jaydeep Goswami , Rupam Jyoti Borah , Umananda Dev Goswami

We consider static and spherically symmetric wormhole solutions in extended metric-affine theories of gravity supposing that stability and traversability of these objects can be achieved by means of the geometric degrees of freedom. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 Vittorio De Falco , Salvatore Capozziello

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 investigate possible manifolds characterizing traversable wormholes in the presence of a scalar field minimally coupled to gravity, which has both kinetic and potential energy. The feature of traversability requires the violation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-31 R. Garattini , A. G. Tzikas

The recently proposed ER=EPR correspondence postulates the existence of wormholes (Einstein-Rosen bridges) between entangled states (such as EPR pairs). Entanglement is famously known to be unobservable in quantum mechanics, in that there…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-23 Ning Bao , Jason Pollack , Grant N. Remmen

An extended gravity theory is used to explore the possibility of non-exotic matter traversable wormholes. In the extended gravity theory, additional terms linear and quadratic in the trace of the energy momentum tensor are considered in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-10 S. K. Tripathy , D. Nayak , B. Mishra , D. Behera , S. K. Sahu

Wormholes have been advanced as both a method for circumventing the limitations of the speed of light as well as a means for building a time machine (to travel to the past). Thus it is argued that General Relativity may allow both of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Leonard Susskind

We construct a static axisymmetric wormhole from the gravitational field of two charged shells which are kept in equilibrium by their electromagnetic repulsion. For large separations the exterior tends to the Majumdar-Papapetrou spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 F. Schein , P. C. Aichelburg

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

The renormalised vacuum expectation values of massless fermion (conventionally call it neutrino) stress-energy tensor are calculated in the static spherically-symmetrical wormhole topology. Consider the case when the derivatives of metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 V. Khatsymovsky

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 investigate traversable wormhole geometries in the framework of $F(T)$ gravity supplemented by a weak de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley (dRGT) massive term. Using the static and spherically symmetric Morris-Thorne metric, we derive the field and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Alexandre Landry , Yassine Sekhmani , Sunil K Maurya , Akram Ali , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We propose, as a novelty in the literature, the modelling of wormholes within the particular case of the $f(R,T)$ gravity, namely $f(R,T)=R+\alpha R^{2}+\lambda T$, with $R$ and $T$ being the Ricci scalar and trace of the energy-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-23 P. K. Sahoo , P. H. R. S. Moraes , Parbati Sahoo

An intriguing solution that appears in General Relativity (GR) but has not been observed so far is the wormhole. This exotic solution describes a topological bridge connecting two distinct universes or two different points in the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-08 Zinnat Hassan , G. Mustafa , Joao R. L. Santos , P. K. Sahoo

Wormholes have been always an interesting object in gravity theories. In this paper we make a little review of the principal properties of these objects and the exotic matter they need to exist. Then, we obtain two specific solutions in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-07-17 Alexis Larranaga

We study the stability of static, spherically symmetric, traversable wormholes existing due to conformal continuations in a class of scalar-tensor theories with zero scalar field potential (so that Fisher's well-known scalar-vacuum solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 K. A. Bronnikov , S. V. Grinyok

Traversable wormholes necessarily require violations of the averaged null energy condition; this being the definition of ``exotic matter''. However, the theorems which guarantee the energy condition violation are remarkably silent when it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-18 Matt Visser , Sayan Kar , Naresh Dadhich

We speculate about the spacetime description due to the presence of Lorentzian wormholes (handles in spacetime joining two distant regions or other universes) in quantum gravity. The semiclassical rate of production of these Lorentzian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Jose-Luis Rosales