Much Ado About Nothing

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2005-02-11

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0502111v1

Class.Quant.Grav. 22 (2005) 4149-4170

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

LaTeX, 26 pages, 3 eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/22/19/023

We describe the semiclassical decay of a class of orbifolds of AdS space via a bubble of nothing. The bounce is the small Euclidean AdS-Schwarzschild solution. The negative cosmological constant introduces subtle features in the conservation of energy during the decay. A near-horizon limit of D3-branes in the Milne orbifold spacetime gives rise to our false vacuum. Conversely, a focusing limit in the latter produces flat space compactified on a circle. The dual field theory description involves a novel analytic continuation of the thermal partition function of Yang-Mills theory on a three-sphere times a circle.

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