Description

It is shown that the existence of static, cylindrically symmetric wormholes does not require violation
of the weak or null energy conditions near the throat, and cylindrically symmetric wormhole
geometries can appear with less exotic sources than wormholes whose throats have a spherical
topology. Examples of exact wormhole solutions are given with scalar, spinor and electromagnetic
fields as sources, and these fields are not necessarily phantom. In particular, there are wormhole
solutions for a massless, minimally coupled scalar field in the presence of a negative cosmological
constant, and for an azimuthal Maxwell electromagnetic field. All these solutions are not asymptotically
flat. A no-go theorem is proved, according to which a flat (or string) asymptotic behavior
on both sides of a cylindrical wormhole throat is impossible if the energy density of matter is
everywhere nonnegative.