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In this paper I present a new class of traversable wormholes. This is done by surgically grafting two Schwarzschild spacetimes together in such a way that no event horizon is permitted to form. This surgery concentrates a non--zero…

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

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

The dynamical behavior of traversable wormholes and black holes under impulsive radiation is studied in an exactly soluble dilaton gravity model. Simple solutions are presented where a traversable wormhole is constructed from a black hole,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-10-02 Hiroko Koyama , Sean A. Hayward , Sung-Won Kim

In spite of their speculative nature, traversable wormholes are a topic of interest that started with the Einstein-Rosen bridge in 1935 and became a major research area with the introduction of the Morris-Thorne wormhole in 1988. It is also…

General Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

It has recently been shown that traversable wormholes may be supported by phantom energy. In this work phantom wormhole geometries are modelled by matching an interior traversable wormhole solution, governed by the equation of state…

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

In the present article, models of traversable wormholes within the $f(R, T)$ modified gravity theory are investigated. We have presented some wormhole models, developed from various hypothesis for the substance of their matter, i.e. various…

General Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Ambuj Kumar Mishra , Umesh Kumar Sharma , Vipin Chandra Dubey , Anirudh Pradhan

The Einstein-Maxwell-Klein-Gordon Lagrangian is supplemented by a non-minimal coupling of the real scalar field to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. The non minimal coupling function is chosen as a general second degree polynomial in the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-28 Y. Brihaye , J. Renaux

We build five-dimensional spherically symmetric wormholes within the DGP theory. We calculate the energy localized on the shell, and we find that the wormholes could be supported by matter not violating the energy conditions. We also show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-07 Martín G. Richarte

We show that the violation of the null energy condition by matter, required by traversable wormholes, can be removed in spacetimes with torsion. In addition, we show that this violation can also be removed in the conformal frame obtained by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-14 Fayçal Hammad , Étienne Massé , Patrick Labelle

In this paper, we employ cut and paste scheme to construct thin-shell wormhole of a charged black string with $f(R)$ terms. We consider $f(R)$ model as an exotic matter source at wormhole throat. The stability of the respective solutions…

General Physics · Physics 2014-10-20 M. Sharif , Z. Yousaf

Wormhole configurations in Einstein's general theory of relativity (GR) require exotic matter sources violating the weak energy condition (WEC). Rastall's theory is a generalization of GR in its matter source considering a nonconserved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-19 Yaghoub Heydarzade , Maryam Ranjbar

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

The wormhole solution could be found by solving the Einstein field equations with violating the null energy condition (NEC). We represent wormhole solutions in $\kappa(R,T)$ gravity in two different ways. At first, we find the shape…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-27 Susmita Sarkar , Nayan Sarkar , Farook Rahaman , Y Aditya

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

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

Traversable wormholes have traditionally been viewed as intrinsically topological entities in some multiply connected spacetime. Here, we show that topology is too limited a tool to accurately characterize a generic traversable wormhole: in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-30 David Hochberg , Matt Visser

It is well known that a Morris-Thorne wormhole can only be held open by violating the null energy condition, physically realizable by the use of "exotic matter." Unfortunately, even a small or moderately-sized wormhole would have a radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-29 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

This paper investigates a particular type of wormhole. The wormhole solutions studied are obtained by sewing together two static, spherically symmetric, charged black-hole metrics at their horizons. The charged wormholes are in a background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-08 Paul H. Cox , Benjamin C. Harms , Shaoqi Hou

We propose wormholes solutions by assuming space dependent equation of state parameter. Our models show that the existence of wormholes is supported by arbitrary small quantities of averaged null energy condition (ANEC) violating phantom…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-24 F. Rahaman , M. Kalam , S. Chakraborty