Published October 15, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

The dual of nothing

  • 1. Centre for Particle Theory, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE (United Kingdom)
  • 2. David Rittenhouse Laboratories, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 (United States)

Description

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-Nordstroem 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 space

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
66
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
p. 086002-086002.9
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2002 The American Physical Society