Holography of AdS vacuum bubbles. (English) Zbl 1272.81137
Summary: We consider the fate of AdS vacua connected by tunneling events. A precise holographic dual of thin-walled Coleman-de Luccia bounces is proposed in terms of Fubini instantons in an unstable CFT. This proposal is backed by several qualitative and quantitative checks, including the precise calculation of the instanton action appearing in evaluating the decay rate. Big crunches manifest themselves as time dependent processes which reach the boundary of field space in a finite time. The infinite energy difference involved is identified on the boundary and highlights the ill-defined nature of the bulk setup. We propose a qualitative scenario in which the crunch is resolved by stabilizing the CFT, so that all attempts at crunching always end up shielded from the boundary by the formation of black hole horizons. In all these well defined bulk processes the configurations have the same asymptotics and are finite energy excitations.
MSC:
| 81T30 | String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory |
| 81T60 | Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics |
| 81T20 | Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds |
| 14D21 | Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) |
| 81T40 | Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics |
| 83C57 | Black holes |
| 83F05 | Relativistic cosmology |
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