https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5538-1
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Wormholes in 
-gravity within the f(R, T) formalism
1
Department of Mathematics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, 500078, India
2
Departamento de Física, ITA-Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, 12228-900, Brazil
* e-mail: pksahoo@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Received:
21
September
2017
Accepted:
10
January
2018
Published online:
19
January
2018
We propose, as a novelty in the literature, the modeling of wormholes within a particular case of f(R, T) gravity, namely 
, with R and T being the Ricci scalar and trace of the energy-momentum tensor, respectively, while 
and 
are constants. Although such a functional form application can be found in the literature, those concern compact astrophysical objects, such that no wormhole analysis has been done so far. The quadratic geometric and linear material corrections of this theory render the matter content of the wormhole remarkably able to obey the energy conditions.
© The Author(s), 2018
