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We present a new class of solutions for static spherically symmetric wormhole spacetimes in conformal gravity and outline a detailed method for their construction. As an explicit example, we construct a class of traversable and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-09 Manuel Hohmann , Christian Pfeifer , Martti Raidal , Hardi Veermäe

Spacetime wormholes are evidently an essential component of the construction of a time machine. Within the context of general relativity, such objects require, for their formation, exotic matter -- matter that violates at least one of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-13 Mengqi Lu , Jiayue Yang , Robert B. Mann

We construct thin shell Lorentzian wormholes in higher dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory applying the ' Cut and Paste ' technique proposed by Visser. The linearized stability is analyzed under radial perturbations around some assumed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Rahaman , M. Kalam , S. Chakraborty

We study the possible existence of static traversable wormholes without invoking exotic matter in the framework of the Einstein--Cartan theory. A family of exact static, spherically symmetric wormhole solutions with an arbitrary throat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 K. A. Bronnikov , A. M. Galiakhmetov

A static wormhole solution for gravity in vacuum is found for odd dimensions greater than four. In five dimensions the gravitational theory considered is described by the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet action where the coupling of the quadratic term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gustavo Dotti , Julio Oliva , Ricardo Troncoso

An exact solution is obtained in the tetrad theory of gravitation. This solution is characterized by two-parameters $k_1, k_2$ of spherically symmetric static Lorentzian wormhole which is obtained as a solution of the equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-08-13 Gamal G. L. Nashed

Exact static, spherically symmetric solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar equations, with a dilatonic-type scalar-vector coupling, in $D$-dimensional gravity with a chain of $n$ Ricci-flat internal spaces are considered. Their properties…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 U. Bleyer , K. A. Bronnikov , S. B. Fadeev , V. N. Melnikov

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

We present new traversable wormhole and non-singular black hole solutions in pure, scale-free $R^2$ gravity. These exotic solutions require no null energy condition violating or "exotic" matter and are supported only by the vacuum of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-02 Francis Duplessis , Damien A. Easson

We consider $5$ dimensional electrostatic solutions to Einstein-Maxwell gravity with $2$ commuting spacelike Killing fields. Taking two distinct reductions from $5$ dimensions to a $3$ dimensional base space, we write the Einstein-Maxwell…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Fred Tomlinson

We use static solutions of 5-dimensional Kaluza-Klein gravity to generate several classes of static, spherically symmetric spacetimes which are analytic solutions to the equation $^{(4)}R = 0$, where $^{(4)}R$ is the four-dimensional Ricci…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-18 J. Ponce de Leon

We construct wormholes in Einstein-vector-Gauss-Bonnet theory where a real massless vector field is coupled to the higher curvature Gauss-Bonnet invariant. We consider three coupling functions which depend on the square of the vector field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-28 Simon Barton , Claus Kiefer , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

We investigate the vacuum and charged spherically symmetric static solutions of the Einstein equations on cosmological background. The background metric is not flat, but curved, with constant - curvature spatial sections. Both vacuum and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. N. Tentyukov

Wormhole solutions to the equations of general relativity have some spectacular local and global properties. As these unusual features are not explicitly forbidden by known physics, wormholes are considered in various astrophysical and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Daniel R. Terno

Static asymptotically Lifshitz wormholes and black holes in vacuum are shown to exist for a class of Lovelock theories in d=2n+1>7 dimensions, selected by requiring that all but one of their n maximally symmetric vacua are AdS of radius l…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Javier Matulich , Ricardo Troncoso

Several traversable wormholes (T-WHs) of the Morris-Thorne type have been presented as exact solutions of Einstein-nonlinear electrodynamics gravity (GR-NLED), e.g. \cite{Arellano2009, Bronnikov2018,Bronnikov_Walia2021, Canate_Breton2018,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-07 Pedro Cañate , F. H. Maldonado-Villamizar

This study introduces and investigates Lorentzian traversable wormhole solutions rooted in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). The static and spherically symmetric solutions to be examined stem from the energy density sourcing self-dual regular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-18 M. B. Cruz , R. M. P. Neves , Celio R. Muniz

In [P. Kanti, B. Kleihaus, J. Kunz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 271101 (2011)] it was shown that the four-dimensional Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet theory allows for wormholes without introducing any exotic matter. The numerical solution for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-28 M. A. Cuyubamba , R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

We investigate Euclidean wormholes in Einstein gravity with a massless scalar field in de Sitter space. Euclidean wormholes are possible due to the analytic continuation of the time as well as complexification of fields, where we need to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-05 Pisin Chen , Yao-Chieh Hu , Dong-han Yeom

We obtain the general $n(\ge 4)$-dimensional static solution with an $(n-2)$-dimensional Einstein base manifold for a perfect fluid obeying a linear equation of state $p=-(n-3)\rho/(n+1)$. It is a generalization of Semiz's four-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-21 Hideki Maeda