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The dual of nothing

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We consider ``bubbles of nothing'' constructed by analytically continuing black hole solutions in Anti-de Sitter space. These provide interesting examples of smooth time-dependent backgrounds which can be studied through the AdS/CFT correspondence. Our examples include bubbles constructed from Schwarzschild-AdS, Kerr-AdS and Reissner-Nordstrom AdS. The Schwarzschild bubble is dual to Yang-Mills theory on three dimensional de Sitter space times a circle. We construct the boundary stress tensor of the bubble spacetime and relate it to the properties of field theory on de Sitter.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0205290,
  title  = {The dual of nothing},
  author = {Vijay Balasubramanian and Simon F. Ross},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0205290},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages, 1 eps figure, LaTeX