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The ghost-free bi-metric gravity theory is a viable theory of gravity that explores the interaction between a massless and a massive graviton and can be described in terms of two dynamical metrics. In this paper, we present an exact static,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Mostafizur Rahman , Anjan A Sen , Sunil Singh Bohra

We discuss the properties of Lorentzian wormholes in dilatonic Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory in four spacetime dimensions. These wormholes do not need any form of exotic matter for their existence. A subset of these wormholes is shown to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Panagiota Kanti , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

We obtain a family of regular static, spherically symmetric solutions in Einstein--Cartan theory with an electromagnetic field and a nonminimally coupled scalar field with the correct sign of kinetic energy density. At different values of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 K. A. Bronnikov , A. M. Galiakhmetov

Gravitational lensing by traversable Lorentzian wormholes is a ew possibility which is analyzed here in the strong field limit. Wormhole solutions are considered in the Einstein minimally coupled theory and in the brane world model. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Kamal Kanti Nandi , Yuan-Zhong Zhang , Alexander V. Zakharov

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

Wormhole solutions in gravitational theories typically require exotic matter. Here we present a wormhole solution to the field equations of Einsteinian Cubic Gravity -- a phenomenological competitor to general relativity that includes terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-04 Mengqi Lu , Jiayue Yang , Robert B. Mann

We classified and studied the charged black hole and wormhole solutions in the Einstein--Maxwell system in the presence of a massless, real scalar field. The possible existence of charged black holes in general scalar--tensor theories was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-03 Júlio C. Fabris , Tales A. O. Gomes , Denis C. Rodrigues

A unified framework for black holes and traversible wormholes is described, where both are locally defined by outer trapping horizons, two-way traversible for wormholes and one-way traversible for black or white holes. In a two-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sean A. Hayward

It is shown that the general solution of classical equations of motion in two dimensional dilaton gravity proposed by Callan, Giddings, Harvey and Strominger (CGHS) includes a Lorentzian wormhole solution in addition to a black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Shin'ichi Nojiri , I. Oda

Properties of $n(\ge 5)$-dimensional static wormhole solutions are investigated in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with or without a cosmological constant $\Lambda$. We assume that the spacetime has symmetries corresponding to the isometries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hideki Maeda , Masato Nozawa

We obtain the static spherically symmetric solutions of a class of gravitational models whose additions to the General Relativity (GR) action forbid Ricci-flat, in particular, Schwarzschild geometries. These theories are selected to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-07 S. Deser , O. Sarioglu , B. Tekin

This study explores the Gaussian and the Lorentzian distributed spherically symmetric wormhole solutions in the $f(\tau, T)$ gravity. The basic idea of the Gaussian and Lorentzian noncommutative geometries emerges as the physically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-31 G. Mustafa , Mushtaq Ahmad , Ali Övgün , M. Farasat Shamir , Ibrar Hussain

We study spherically symmetric black hole solutions in a four-parameter Einstein-Cartan-type class of theories, called "torsion bigravity". These theories offer a geometric framework (with a metric and an independent torsionfull connection)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-21 Vasilisa Nikiforova , Thibault Damour

In this paper, we analyse the global structure of the Bronnikov wormhole, which is the most general spherically-symmetric and static solution in Einstein gravity coupled to a free massless phantom scalar. We then introduce a scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-02 Hyat Huang , Hong Lü , Jinbo Yang

We introduce a two-parameter static, nonspherically-symmetric black hole solution in the Einstein theory of gravity coupled with a massless scalar field. The scalar field depends only on the polar coordinate $\theta$ in the spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-21 S. Habib Mazharimousavi

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

Extensions of Einstein gravity with quadratic curvature terms in the action arise in most effective theories of quantised gravity, including string theory. This article explores the set of static, spherically symmetric and asymptotically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-22 H. Lü , A. Perkins , C. N. Pope , K. S. Stelle

In this article we analyze the predictions of the Einstein gravitation theory (EGT) on black holes in the framework of the Schwarzschild geometry that is defined in the vacuum around a spherically symmetric mass distribution, without…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-04 M. Cattani

The inclusion of the Weyl squared term in the gravitational action is one of the most simple, yet non trivial modifications to General Relativity at high energies. Nevertheless the study of the spherically-symmetric vacuum solutions of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-29 Alfio Bonanno , Samuele Silveravalle , Alessandro Zuccotti

We solve the Euclidean Einstein equations with non-Abelian gauge fields of sufficiently large symmetry in various dimensions. In higher-dimensional spaces, we find the solutions which are similar to so-called scalar wormholes. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-09 Katsuhiko Yoshida , Satoru Hirenzaki , Kiyoshi Shiraishi