Viable Wormhole Structures and Energy Conditions in f(Q,T) Theory

Abstract

This paper explores static wormhole solutions in f(Q,T) theory, where Q is the non-metricity and T is the trace of energy-momentum tensor. We derive the field equations that describe gravitational phenomena in the existence of non-metricity and matter source terms. We examine different models of this theory to determine the explicit expressions of matter contents, which are useful for analyzing the wormhole structures. We investigate the existence of feasible traversable wormhole solutions for constant and variable redshift functions. To determine whether physically viable wormhole geometry exists, we examine the graphical interpretation of energy constraints for different values of model parameters. It is found that realistic traversable and stable wormhole solutions exist only for the first model of this gravity.