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de Sitter versus Anti de Sitter flows and the (super)gravity landscape: Part II

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-10-15 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Generic solutions are studied in Einstein-scalar gravity in an ansatz that can interpolate between de Sitter and Anti-de Sitter regimes. The scalar potential is arbitrary. All solutions are determined by their end-points in the scalar field space. All such end-points are classified. This provides a complete classification and characterization of the full space of regular solutions. It is shown that there are no regular (Centaur) solutions that interpolate between an AdS boundary and a dS interior, within our ansatz, when d>2d>2. This no-go theorem persists in the presence of multiple scalar fields with a non-trivial field space metric. The Gubser classification of regular solutions is also upgraded to include cases that are not Lorentz invariant and do not contain AdS boundaries.

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@article{arxiv.2510.12373,
  title  = {de Sitter versus Anti de Sitter flows and the (super)gravity landscape: Part II},
  author = {Elias Kiritsis and Sergio Morales-Tejera and Christopher Rosen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.12373},
  year   = {2025}
}

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80 pages + appendix, 37 figures