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It has been suggested that the cosmological constant is a variable dynamical quantity. A class of solution has been presented for the spherically symmetric space time describing wormholes by assuming the erstwhile cosmological constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Rahaman , M. Kalam , M. Sarker , A. Ghosh , B. Raychaudhuri

In this work, we consider the possibility that wormhole geometries are sustained by their own quantum fluctuations, in the context of modified dispersion relations. More specifically, the energy density of the graviton one-loop contribution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-27 Remo Garattini , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We investigate the quantum stability of a timelike topological wormhole with a simple geometry $M_2 \times S^2$, supported classically by anisotropic fluid. We compute the one-loop quantum backreaction generated by the vacuum fluctuations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-13 Haris Mehulic , Tomislav Prokopec

We discuss the calculation of semi-classical wormhole vertex operators from wave functions which satisfy the Wheeler-deWitt equation and momentum constraints, together with certain `wormhole boundary conditions'. We consider a massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Alex Lyons

Wormholes are interesting space-time structures connecting two asymptotic regions found in a universe or multiverse and are solutions to Einstein's field equations. These objects have many interesting features as far as physics is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-28 A. H. Hasmani , Sagar V. Soni , Ravi Panchal

In this work, we find exact wormhole solutions in the context of noncommutative geometry, and further explore their physical properties and characteristics. The energy density of these wormhole geometries is a smeared and particle-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-23 Remo Garattini , Francisco S. N. Lobo

Using simplicial minisuperspace techniques we obtain a wormhole configuration, capable of modelling both a throat between two equal Euclidean and Lorentzian universes. Computing the wavefunction associated to such configuration we conclude…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 Cristovao Correia da Silva , Ruth M. Williams

While wormholes may be just as good a prediction of Einstein's theory as black holes, they are subject to severe restrictions from quantum field theory. In particular, a wormhole can only be held open by violating the null energy condition,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-31 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

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

A generalisation of the asymptotic wormhole boundary condition for the case of spacetimes with a cosmological horizon is proposed. In particular, we consider de Sitter spacetime with small cosmological constant. The wave functions selected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Carlos Barcelo

We introduce a novel Einstein-Rosen BTZ wormhole metric as a solution to the Einstein field equations with a negative cosmological constant and explore in detail its various phenomenological aspects. We show that the wormhole metric is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-25 Ankit Anand , Kimet Jusufi , Mendrit Latifi

A new solution has been presented for the spherically symmetric space time describing wormholes with Phantom Energy. The model suggests that the existence of wormhole is supported by arbitrarily small quantity of Phantom Energy.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Rahaman , M. Kalam , M. Sarker , K. Gayen

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 apply duality rotations and complex transformations to the Schwarzschild metric to obtain wormhole geometries with two asymptotically flat regions connected by a throat. In the simplest case these are the well-known wormholes supported…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-03 Gary W. Gibbons , Mikhail S. Volkov

We study wormhole as the solution of the Wheeler-deWitt (WdW ) equation satisfying Hawking-Page wormhole boundary conditions in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmology. The quantum wormholes are formulated with arbitrary factor ordering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Farook Rahaman , Bikramarka S. Choudhury , Anikul Islam

Static traversable wormhole solutions of the Einstein equations require ``exotic'' matter which violates the weak energy condition. The vacuum stress-energy of quantized fields has been proposed as the source for this matter. Using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Brett E. Taylor , William A. Hiscock , Paul R. Anderson

We consider $f(R, T)$ theory of gravity, in which the gravitational Lagrangian is given by an arbitrary function of the Ricci scalar and the trace of the energy-momentum tensor, to study static spherically symmetric wormhole geometries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-03 Ayan Banerjee , M. K. Jasim , Sushant G. Ghosh

The ring wormhole is the zero-mass limit of the Kerr metric. Its geometry is locally flat, but the topology is nontrivial, with a throat connecting two asymptotic regions and a distributional curvature singularity on the ring encircling the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Mikhail S. Volkov

We revisit the shapes of the throats of wormholes, including thin-shell wormholes (TSWs) in $2+1-$dimensions. In particular, in the case of TSWs this is done in a flat $2+1-$dimensional bulk spacetime by using the standard method of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-23 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

A very simple wormhole geometry is considered as a model of a mode of topological fluctutation in Planck-scale spacetime foam. Quantum dynamics of the hole reduces to quantum mechanics of one variable, throat radius, and admits a WKB…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-06 Ian H. Redmount , Wai-Mo Suen