Narrow Results

It is an undeniable fact that the negative energy source is essential for the stability of traversable wormholes. Recently, it has been shown that the Casimir energy which is the only artificial source of negative energy till date, could source the negative energy to the traversable wormholes as well. In this paper, we explore the possibility of non-exotic traversable wormholes in 4-D EGB gravity. We use the Yukawa–Casimir shape function and investigate the various energy conditions. We observe that for appropriate choices of shape function and the parameters, traversable wormholes with normal matter at throat can be found.

There is an unavoidable association of traversability of wormholes to the violation of null energy condition which in turn indicates the presence of exotic or non-exotic matter in the wormhole geometry. The exotic matter possesses the negative energy that is required to sustain the wormhole. Recently studies are done to solve this problem so as to avoid the exotic matter. In this work, we attempt to find such solution in the framework of $F(R,T)$ gravity where $F(R,T)=R+2\lambda T$, here $R$ and $T$ are Ricci scalar and trace of energy momentum tensor respectively, using the Yukawa–Casimir shape function. For Yukawa–Casimir wormhole, it is assumed that the exotic energy is sourced from the Casimir energy density. We have examined the energy conditions using Yukawa–Casimir shape function