Plumbing the wormholes of string theory flux compactifications
High Energy Physics - Theory
2024-04-02 v1
Abstract
Thus far, the known wormholes in string theory connecting disjoint boundaries represented by finite volume quotients of hyperbolic spaces leak: they are non-perturbatively unstable towards brane-anti-brane nucleation in the flux backgrounds that support these wormholes. Turning on additional fluxes suppressed this instability, but would not completely eliminate it. We present the first example of a non-perturbatively stable wormhole in type IIB supergravity on a warped squashed conifold with fluxes.
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@article{arxiv.2404.00803,
title = {Plumbing the wormholes of string theory flux compactifications},
author = {Alex Buchel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.00803},
year = {2024}
}
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12 pages, 1 figure