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In this paper we study the traversability of a wormhole in the context of Asymptotically Safe Gravity (ASG) for two different cases, namely, the spherical case and the pseudospherical case. We carried out an analysis in the throat of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-28 M. Nilton , J. Furtado , G. Alencar

By a combination of analytical and numerical techniques, we demonstrate the existence of spherical, asymptotically flat traversable wormholes supported by exotic matter whose stress tensor relative to the orthonormal frame of Killing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 J. A. Gonzalez , F. S. Guzman , N. Montelongo-Garcia , T. Zannias

We consider $f(R, T)$ theory of gravity, in which the gravitational Lagrangian is given by an arbitrary function of the Ricci scalar and the trace of the energy-momentum tensor, to study static spherically symmetric wormhole geometries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-03 Ayan Banerjee , M. K. Jasim , Sushant G. Ghosh

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

A dynamical theory of traversable wormholes is detailed in spherical symmetry. Generically a wormhole consists of a tunnel of trapped surfaces between two mouths, defined as temporal outer trapping horizons with opposite senses, in mutual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-30 Sean A. Hayward

This Letter aims to advance unexplored properties of a new class of Closed Timelike Curves recently discovered in scalar-tensor gravity, reported in Universe 9, 467 (2023) and Eur.$\,$Phys.$\,$J.$\,$C 83, 626 (2023). Therein, it was shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-26 Hoang Ky Nguyen , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We calculate the Casimir energy-momentum tensor induced in a scalar field by a macroscopic ultrastatic spherically-symmetric long-throated traversable wormhole, and examine whether this exotic matter is sufficient to stabilise the wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-09 Luke M. Butcher

In this study, we reach the equations of motion of Morris-Thorne wormhole geometry by means of the Einstein Field Equations and Klein-Gordon Equation of Scalar-Tensor theory by direct calculation. We discuss the anisotropic matter energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-19 Onur Genç

We present a wormhole construction in the framework of the $f(R,T)$ extended gravity theory, with $R$ being the Ricci curvature scalar and $T$ the trace of the energy-momentum tensor, in the case in which the energy-momentum tensor is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-07 Marcelo Montenegro Lapola

It is shown that the existence of static, cylindrically symmetric wormholes does not require violation of the weak or null energy conditions near the throat, and cylindrically symmetric wormhole geometries can appear with less exotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-30 Kirill A. Bronnikov , José P. S. Lemos

Wormhole geometries in curvature-matter coupled modified gravity are explored, by considering an explicit nonminimal coupling between an arbitrary function of the scalar curvature, R, and the Lagrangian density of matter. It is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-09 Nadiezhda Montelongo Garcia , Francisco S. N. Lobo

It is known that Lorentzian wormholes must be threaded by matter that violates the null energy condition. We phenomenologically characterize such exotic matter by a general class of microscopic scalar field Lagrangians and formulate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 C. Armendariz-Picon

While wormholes are as good a prediction of Einstein's theory as black holes, they are subject to severe restrictions from quantum field theory. In particular, holding a wormhole open requires a violation of the null energy condition,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-23 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

Higher-dimensional black holes have long been considered within the context of brane worlds. Recently, it was shown that the brane-world ethos also permits the consideration of higher-dimensional wormholes. When such a wormhole, preexisting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-17 Enrico Rodrigo

We seek wormholes among rotating cylindrically symmetric configurations in general relativity. Exact wormhole solutions are presented with such sources of gravity as a massless scalar field, a cosmological constant, and a scalar field with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 K. A. Bronnikov , V. G. Krechet

We study the process of quantum tunnelling in self-interacting scalar field theories with non-minimal coupling to gravity. In these theories gravitational instantons can develop a neck -- a feature prohibited in theories with minimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 Lorenzo Battarra , George Lavrelashvili , Jean-Luc Lehners

A detailed study of quantum and semiclassical Euclidean wormholes for Einstein's theory with a minimally coupled scalar field has been performed for a class of potentials. Massless, constant, massive (quadratic in the scalar field) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Soumendranath Ruz , Subhra Debnath , Abhik Kumar Sanyal , Bijan Modak

We calculate renormalised vacuum expectation values of electromagnetic stress-energy tensor in the static spherically-symmetrical wormhole topology. We find that for metric tensor sufficiently slow varied with distance violation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 V. Khatsymovsky

We consider novel wormhole solutions supported by a matter content that minimally violates the null energy condition. More specifically, we consider an equation of state in which the sum of the energy density and radial pressure is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-10 Mariam Bouhmadi-Lopez , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Prado Martin-Moruno

It has been suggested that the cosmological constant is a variable dynamical quantity. A class of solution has been presented for the spherically symmetric space time describing wormholes by assuming the erstwhile cosmological constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Rahaman , M. Kalam , M. Sarker , A. Ghosh , B. Raychaudhuri