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We discuss new exact solutions of a three-parameter nonminimal Einstein-Maxwell model. The solutions describe static spherically symmetric objects with and without center, supported by an electric field nonminimally coupled to gravity. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-16 Alexander B. Balakin , José P. S. Lemos , Alexei E. Zayats

Wormholes are non-trivial topological structures that arise as exact solutions to Einstein's field equations, theoretically connecting distinct regions of spacetime via a throat-like geometry. While static traversable wormholes necessarily…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Mahdi Kord Zangeneh , Francisco S. N. Lobo

In this article, we study wormhole spacetimes in the framework of the static spherically symmetric SU(2) Einstein-Yang-Mills theory coupled to a phantom scalar field. We show rigorously the existence of an infinite sequence of symmetric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Marko Sobak

First, the ideas introduced in the wormhole research field since the work of Morris and Thorne are briefly reviewed, namely, the issues of energy conditions, wormhole construction, stability, time machines and astrophysical signatures.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose' P. S. Lemos , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Sergio Quinet de Oliveira

We present a wormhole solution in four dimensions. It is a solution of an Einstein Maxwell theory plus charged massless fermions. The fermions give rise to a negative Casimir-like energy, which makes the wormhole possible. It is a long…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-05 Juan Maldacena , Alexey Milekhin , Fedor Popov

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

In this paper we study traversable wormholes in the context of $f(R)$ gravity. Exact solutions of traversable wormholes are found by imposing the nonconstant Ricci scalar. These solutions asymptotically match spherical, flat and hyperbolic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-23 Hanif Golchin , Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh

In this paper we study a static cyclic symmetric traversable wormhole in $(2+1)-$dimensional gravity coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics in anti-de Sitter spacetime. The solution is characterized by three parameters: mass $M$, cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-08 Pedro Cañate , Nora Breton , Leonardo Ortiz

In Einstein gravity, for an inhomogeneous phantom energy distribution having linear equation of state (but anisotropic), there exists simple exact solution for spherically symmetric space time describing a wormhole. At infinity, the space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Subenoy Chakraborty , Tanwi Bandyopadhyay

We consider novel wormhole solutions supported by a matter content that minimally violates the null energy condition. More specifically, we consider an equation of state in which the sum of the energy density and radial pressure is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-10 Mariam Bouhmadi-Lopez , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Prado Martin-Moruno

We present a discussion of the traversable wormholes in Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theory recently reported in e-Print: 2010.07317. This includes a detailed description of the ansatz and junction condition, together with an investigation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-16 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Christian Knoll , E. Radu

The newly discovered Wormhole C--metric is a solution of Einstein's field equation coupled with a phantom scalar field which describes the accelerated wormholes. In the zero acceleration limit the solution reduces to an asymptotically flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-12 Soham Chatterjee , Sagnik Roy , Ratna Koley

Quasinormal modes in the high frequency (eikonal) regime can be obtained analytically as the Mashhoon-Will-Schiutz WKB formula is exact in this case. This regime is interesting because of the correspondence between eikonal quasinormal modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 M. S. Churilova

A spherically symmetric space-time solution for a diffusive two measures theory is studied. An asymmetric wormhole geometry is obtained where the metric coefficients have a linear term for galactic distances and the analysis of Mannheim and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-31 Sebastian Bahamonde , David Benisty , Eduardo I. Guendelman

We investigate a static solution with an hyperbolic nature, characterised by a pseudo-spherical foliation of space. This space-time metric can be perceived as an anti-Schwarzschild solution, and exhibits repulsive features. It belongs to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-23 José P. Mimoso , Francisco S. N. Lobo

The Einstein equations for an isotropic and homogeneous Friedmann--Robertson--Walker Universe in the presence of a quintessence scalar field are shown to be described in a unified way, formally identical to the dynamics of a relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-04 Sergio A. Hojman , Felipe A. Asenjo

In this short review we present some recently obtained traversable wormhole models in the framework of general relativity (GR) in four and six dimensions that somehow widen our common ideas on wormhole existence and properties. These are,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-23 K. A. Bronnikov

A simple one-parameter generalization of the Schwarzschild spacetime was recently suggested by A. Simpson and M. Visser [JCAP 1902, 042 (2019)] as a toy model describing the regular black hole and traversable wormhole states separated by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-09 M. S. Churilova , Z. Stuchlik

We derive noncommutative Einstein equations for abelian twists and their solutions in consistently symmetry reduced sectors, corresponding to twisted FRW cosmology and Schwarzschild black holes. While some of these solutions must be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-20 Thorsten Ohl , Alexander Schenkel

Charged Dirac fields minimally coupled to gravity have spherically symmetric wormhole solutions known as Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell (EDM) wormholes. EDM wormholes do not make use of exotic matter and exist in asymptotically flat general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-11 Ben Kain