We demonstrate five-dimensional anti-de Sitter black hole emerges as dual geometry holographic to weakly interacting N = 4 superconformal Yang-Mills theory. We first note that an ideal probe of the dual geometry is the Yang-Mills instanton, probing point by point in spacetime. We then study instanton moduli space at finite temperature by adopting Hitchin’s proposal that geometry of the moduli s...

We consider flux compactification of type IIB string theory as the orientifold limit of an Ftheory on a Calabi-Yau fourfold. We show that when supersymmetry is dominantly broken by the axion-dilaton and the contributions of the F-terms associated with complex structure moduli are small, the Hessian of the flux potential always has tachyonic modes for de Sitter vacua. This implies that there exi...

We construct traversable wormholes with anti-de Sitter asymptotics supported by a phantom field. These are massless and symmetric respect to reflection of the radial coordinate $\eta \to - \eta$. Their circumferential radius decreases monotonically from infinity their single throat. Analogous asymptotically flat counterparts, these possess an unstable mode.

We study the effects of asymptotically anti–de Sitter wormholes in low-energy field theory and give a general prescription for obtaining the local effective interaction terms induced by them. The choice of vacuum for the matter fields selects a basis of the Hilbert space of anti–de Sitter wormholes whose elements can be interpreted as states containing a given number of particles. This interpre...

We demonstrate five-dimensional anti-de Sitter black hole emerges as dual geometry holographic to weakly interacting N = 4 superconformal Yang-Mills theory. We first note that an ideal probe of the dual geometry is the YangMills instanton, probing point by point in spacetime. We then study instanton moduli space at finite temperature by adopting Hitchin’s proposal that geometry of the moduli sp...