Type IIB Axion--Dilaton Wormholes and the BPS Limit Hessian
Abstract
I revisit Type-IIB axion--dilaton Euclidean saddles in a specified axion charge sector. In that sector, the solution with is the BPS instanton, while gives non-BPS wormholes with a smooth throat. The two cases solve the same radial equations but define different fluctuation problems. For the instanton, the Hamiltonian constraint, gauge quotient, charge-sector boundary condition, and removal of collective zero modes reduce the quadratic action to a physical Hessian. This Hessian factorizes, . I interpret this as an endpoint theorem, beyond a stability theorem for the full wormhole. This puts Type IIB wormhole spectra on firmer grounds. I also separate the connected two-ended wormhole throat from its long-distance two-end multipole operator term. Once the coefficient matrix is derived, the different-component and same-component placements of the two end insertions are terms in the same quadratic expression. Removing either term requires a genuine projection or cancellation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.01221,
title = {Type IIB Axion--Dilaton Wormholes and the BPS Limit Hessian},
author = {Soo-Jong Rey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.01221},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
22 pages, no figure