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AdS Wormholes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-01-14 v2

Abstract

We obtain a large class of smooth Lorentzian p-brane wormholes in supergravities in various dimensions. They connect two asymptotically flat spacetimes. In cases where there is no dilaton involved in the solution, the wormhole can connect an AdS_n\times S^m in one asymptotic region to a flat spacetime in the other. We obtain explicit examples for (n,m)=(4,7), (7,4), (5,5), (3,3), (3,2). These geometries correspond to field theories with UV conformal fixed points, and they undergo decompactification in the IR region. In the case of AdS_3, we compute the central charge of the corresponding conformal field theory.

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@article{arxiv.0808.2481,
  title  = {AdS Wormholes},
  author = {A. Bergman and H. Lu and Jianwei Mei and C. N. Pope},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.2481},
  year   = {2009}
}

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20 pages, references added

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