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A Zoo of Axionic Wormholes

Published 19 Jun 2023 in hep-th and gr-qc | (2306.11129v1)

Abstract: As was discovered some time ago by Giddings and Strominger (GS), an axion can support a wormhole geometry in the presence of a massless dilaton, as long as the dilaton coupling remains below a critical value. We find that when the dilaton becomes massive, the set of solutions is vastly increased: not only do solutions exist above the critical value of the coupling, but new branches of solutions with several minima in the geometry also appear. All of these generalised GS-like solutions possess the property that, when analytically continued, they lead to a contracting baby universe. We show that in addition there exist families of solutions which, upon analytic continuation, lead to expanding baby universes. A curious property of axion-dilaton wormhole families is that their Euclidean action often decreases when the solutions acquire additional oscillations in the fields. When we replace the dilaton by an ordinary scalar field with a double well potential, we find analogous wormhole families leading to expanding baby universes. This time the Euclidean action has the expected behaviour of increasing with the number of oscillations in the fields, although it also contains a puzzling aspect in that some solutions possess a negative action.

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