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A crucial aspect of wormhole (WH) physics is the inclusion of exotic matter, which requires violating the null energy condition. Here, we explore the potential for WHs to be sustained by quark matter under conditions of extreme density…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-20 Sneha Pradhan , Zinnat Hassan , P. K. Sahoo

We review a new traversable-wormhole solution of the gravitational field equation of general relativity without exotic matter. Instead of having exotic matter to keep the wormhole throat open, the solution relies on a 3-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-25 Frans R. Klinkhamer

In this work, we construct traversable wormhole geometries in the context of f(R) modified theories of gravity. We impose that the matter threading the wormhole satisfies the energy conditions, so that it is the effective stress-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-12 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Miguel A. Oliveira

A class of $f(R, T)$ theories extends the Einstein-Hilbert action by incorporating a general function of $R$ and $T$, the Ricci scalar and the trace of the ordinary energy-momentum tensor $T_{\mu\nu}$, respectively, thereby introducing a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Yaghoub Heydarzade , Maryam Ranjbar

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

We construct new black holes using the curvature-induced scalarization mechanism in Einstein gravity coupled to a massless phantom scalar. We find that the general wormhole solutions with independent scalar charge become descalarized so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-26 Ze Li , Hai-Shan Liu , H. Lu

In this article we study spherical thin-shell wormholes in five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We show that configurations supported by non-exotic matter, that is matter satisfying the weak energy condition, are possible at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Emilio Rubín de Celis , Claudio Simeone

While wormholes are just as good a prediction of Einstein's theory as black holes, they are subject to severe restrictions from quantum field theory. To allow for the possibility of interstellar travel, a macroscopic wormhole would need to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-25 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

In this paper we study the possibility of sustaining an evolving wormhole via exotic matter made out of phantom energy. We show that this exotic source can support the existence of evolving wormhole spacetimes. Explicitly, a family of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mauricio Cataldo , Pedro Labrana , Sergio del Campo , Juan Crisostomo , Patricio Salgado

Exotic compact objects refer to a wide class of black hole alternatives or effective models to describe phenomenologically quantum gravitational effects on the horizon scale. In this work we show how the knowledge of the quasi-normal mode…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-26 Sebastian H. Völkel , Kostas D. Kokkotas

In this work, we focus on the dynamics of a massive one-form field, \textbf{B}, often referred to simply as a vector field, that is minimally coupled to standard Einstein gravity. In the framework of four-dimensional spacetimes, the theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Nailya Ganiyeva , Bruno J. Barros , Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Francisco S. N. Lobo

Smooth-throat wormholes are treated on as possessing quantum fluctuation energy with scalar massive field as its source. Heat kernel coefficients of the Laplace operator are calculated in background of the arbitrary-profile throat wormhole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Nail R. Khusnutdinov

The ground state energy of the massive scalar field with non-conformal coupling $\xi$ on the short-throat flat-space wormhole background is calculated by using zeta renormalization approach. We discuss the renormalization and relevant heat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Nail R. Khusnutdinov , Sergey V. Sushkov

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 2007-08-02 Enrico Rodrigo

Braneworld models were firstly proposed as a great alternative for the hierarcy problem of particle physics, by allowing gravitons, differently from the other interacting bosons, to propagate through an extradimensional space named bulk. As…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-24 Ayan Banerjee , P. H. R. S. Moraes , R. A. C. Correa , G. Ribeiro

We investigate wormhole solutions using the modified gravity model $f(Q,T)$ with viscosity and aim to find a solution for the existence of wormholes mathematically without violating the energy conditions. We show that there is no need to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 S. Davood Sadatian , S. Mohamad Reza Hosseini

Building on the work of Morris, Thorne, and Yurtsever, some particularly simple examples of traversable wormholes are exhibited. These examples are notable both because the analysis is not limited to spherically symmetric cases, and because…

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

In this work, we study the rotating wormhole geometries supported by a three-form field. We demonstrate for particular choices of parameters that it is possible for the matter fields threading the wormhole to satisfy the null and weak…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-18 Takol Tangphati , Butsayapat Chaihao , Daris Samart , Phongpichit Channuie , Davood Momeni

We investigate spherically symmetric and static traversable wormholes supported by exotic matter, focusing on solutions sourced by physically motivated dark matter energy density profiles. Considering the Thomas-Fermi-type distribution, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Remo Garattini , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Kirill Zatrimaylov

We consider the nonlinear energy conditions and their quantum extensions. These new energy conditions behave much better than the usual pointwise energy conditions in the presence of semiclassical quantum effects. Analogous quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Prado Martin-Moruno