We study supergravity instantons sourced by axion (and saxion) fields in the Euclidean AdS(3) x S-3 x CY2 vacua of IIB supergravity. Such instantons are described by geodesic curves on the moduli space; the timelike geodesics can describe Euclidean wormholes, the lightlike geodesics describe (generalizations of) D instantons, and spacelike geodesics are subextremal versions thereof. We perform a concrete classification of such geodesics and find that, despite earlier claims, the wormholes fail to be regular. A subclass of the lightlike geodesics is supersymmetric and, up to dualities, lifts to Euclidean strings wrapping 2-cycles in the CY2. The dual of these instantons is expected to be worldsheet instantons of the D1-D5 conformal field theory.

Instantons and wormholes in AdS(3) x S-3 x CY2 / Astesiano, D; Ruggeri, D; Trigiante, M; Van Riet, T. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW D. - ISSN 2470-0010. - ELETTRONICO. - 105:8(2022), p. 086022. [10.1103/PhysRevD.105.086022]

Instantons and wormholes in AdS(3) x S-3 x CY2

Astesiano, D;Ruggeri, D;Trigiante, M;
2022

Abstract

We study supergravity instantons sourced by axion (and saxion) fields in the Euclidean AdS(3) x S-3 x CY2 vacua of IIB supergravity. Such instantons are described by geodesic curves on the moduli space; the timelike geodesics can describe Euclidean wormholes, the lightlike geodesics describe (generalizations of) D instantons, and spacelike geodesics are subextremal versions thereof. We perform a concrete classification of such geodesics and find that, despite earlier claims, the wormholes fail to be regular. A subclass of the lightlike geodesics is supersymmetric and, up to dualities, lifts to Euclidean strings wrapping 2-cycles in the CY2. The dual of these instantons is expected to be worldsheet instantons of the D1-D5 conformal field theory.
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