High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Existence and Stability of Euclidean Wormholes with $S^1\times S^2$ Boundaries
Xiaoyi Liu,
UC Santa Barbara,
We study Euclidean Einstein gravity coupled to massless complex scalar fields in 4 dimensions with $S^1 \times S^2$ boundaries. We find three families of solutions: wormholes, thermal AdS, and black holes. The wormhole phase appears only for sufficiently large scalar sources with momentum on the boundaries. The wormhole dominates at even larger source amplitudes, above a Hawking-Page-like transition. We further study the stability (existence of negative modes) for the wormhole solutions.
The talk is in 469 Lauritsen.
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