Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1999-05-31
JHEP 9906 (1999) 026
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
22 pages, Latex, short comments and a reference added
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/1999/06/026
According to the positive energy conjecture of Horowitz and Myers, there is a specific supergravity solution, AdS soliton, which has minimum energy among all asymptotically locally AdS solutions with the same boundary conditions. Related to the issue of semiclassical stability of AdS soliton in the context of pure gravity with a negative cosmological constant, physical boundary conditions are determined for an instanton solution which would be responsible for vacuum decay by barrier penetration. Certain geometric properties of instantons are studied, using Hermitian differential operators. On a $d$-dimensional instanton, it is shown that there are $d-2$ harmonic functions. A class of instanton solutions, obeying more restrictive boundary conditions, is proved to have $d-1$ Killing vectors which also commute. All but one of the Killing vectors are duals of harmonic one-forms, which are gradients of harmonic functions, and do not have any fixed points.
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