PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 376 - Corfu Summer Institute 2019 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity" (CORFU2019) - Conference on Recent Developments in Strings and Gravity
Instantons, Euclidean wormholes and AdS/CFT
T. Van Riet
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Published on: August 18, 2020
Abstract
I present an informal overview of several recent results about Euclidean saddle points sourced by axion fields in quantum gravity (AdS/CFT), such as wormholes, their extremal ``D-instanton" limits and their under-extremal singular counterparts. Concerning wormholes we argue they cannot contribute to the path integral because a stability analysis suggests they fragment like other super-extremal objects. For concrete AdS/CFT embeddings the Euclidean saddle point solutions are neatly described by geodesic curves living inside moduli spaces and can typically be solved for using group theory. Our working example is $AdS_5\times S^5/\mathbb{Z}_k$ and allows for smooth Euclidean wormholes. For the supersymmetric D-instanton-like solutions we seem to find a match with the instantons in the dual $\mathcal{N}=2$ quivers. This match even extends a bit further to self-dual instantons without supersymmetry.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.376.0121
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