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Some of the simplest wormhole solutions involve massless scalar fields that take imaginary values. Massless fields can be interpreted as coupling constants in asymptotically flat or asymptotically AdS gravity theories. We argue that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Juan Maldacena , Alexander Maloney , Brian McPeak

We compute the graviton one loop contribution to a classical energy in a traversable wormhole background. Such a contribution is evaluated by means of a variational approach with Gaussian trial wave functionals. A zeta function…

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

In this letter, we investigate the traversable wormholes in the holographic dark energy (HDE) model constrained by the modern astronomical observations. First of all, we constrain the HDE model by adopting different data-sets, explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-21 Deng Wang , Xin-he Meng

We build spherically symmetric wormholes within the DGP theory. We calculate the energy localized on the shell, and we find that for certain values of the parameters wormholes could be supported by matter not violating the energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Martín G. Richarte

We investigate systems containing objects with negative mass (NMOs). In a system consisting of one object with positive mass and one NMO, a bound state exists even though the force exerted by the NMO on the object with positive mass is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-18 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

The purpose of this paper is to show that wormholes in noncommutative geometry can be macroscopic, based in part on an earlier study. The necessary violation of the weak energy condition is attributable to the noncommutative-geometry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-25 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

Although wormholes can be treated as topological objects in spacetime and from a global point-of-view, a precise definition of what a wormhole throat is and where it can be located can be developed and treated entirely in terms of local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 David Hochberg , Matt Visser

Wormholes are hypothetical tunnels that connect remote parts of spacetime. In General Relativity, wormholes are threaded by exotic matter that violates the energy conditions. In this work, we consider wormholes threaded by nonexotic matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-26 Rui-Hui Lin , Zhen-Yuan Wu , Xiang-Hua Zhai

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

We investigate a new type of Schwarzschild wormhole, which relies on a 3-dimensional spacetime defect with degenerate metrics. This particular wormhole is a solution of the vacuum Einstein equations. We also study the generalized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-11 Zi-Liang Wang

Electric fields can thread a classical Einstein-Rosen bridge. Maldacena and Susskind have recently suggested that in a theory of dynamical gravity the entanglement of ordinary perturbative quanta should be viewed as creating a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-07 Dalit Engelhardt , Ben Freivogel , Nabil Iqbal

We construct and analyse wormhole solutions in quantised space-time. The field equations are constructed from the deformed wormhole metric in the proper reference frame using tetrads. The spatial geometry of the wormhole is analysed in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-28 Harsha Sreekumar , E. Harikumar

Models of static wormholes are investigated in the framework of $f(\textit{R}, \textit{T})$ gravity ($\textit{R}$ being the curvature scalar, and $\textit{T}$ the trace of the energy momentum tensor). An attempt to link the energy density…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-31 Emilio Elizalde , Martiros Khurshudyan

It is shown that three of the four Brans solutions of classes I--IV admit wormhole geometry. Two-way traversable wormholes in the Brans-Dicke theory are allowed not only for the negative values of the coupling parameter w (w<-2), as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-30 Kamal K. Nandi , Anwarul Islam

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

In this paper we derive new static phantom traversable wormholes by assuming a shape function with a quadratic dependence on the radial coordinate r. We mainly focus our study on wormholes sustained by exotic matter with positive energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Mauricio Cataldo , Fabian Orellana

In this work we propose the modelling of static wormholes within the $f(R,T)$ extended theory of gravity perspective. We present some models of wormholes, which are constructed from different hypothesis for their matter content, i.e.,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-06 P. H. R. S. Moraes , P. K. Sahoo

Analytic solutions are presented which describe the construction of a traversable wormhole from a Schwarzschild black hole, and the enlargement of such a wormhole, in Einstein gravity. The matter model is pure radiation which may have…

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

In quadratic gravity, the junction conditions are six and permit the appearance of double layer thin shells. Double layers arise typically in theories with dipoles, i.e., two opposite charges, such as electromagnetic theories, and appear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-12 Joao Luís Rosa , Rui André , José P. S. Lemos

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