%0 Journal Article %1 Blanco-Pillado2010 %A Blanco-Pillado, Jose J. %A Ramadhan, Handhika S. %A Shlaer, Benjamin %D 2010 %K gravity instanton %T Decay of flux vacua to nothing %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0753 %X We construct instanton solutions describing the decay of flux compactifications of a $6d$ gauge theory by generalizing the Kaluza-Klein bubble of nothing. The surface of the bubble is described by a smooth magnetically charged solitonic brane whose asymptotic flux is precisely that responsible for stabilizing the 4d compactification. We describe several instances of bubble geometries for the various vacua occurring in a $6d$ Einstein-Maxwell theory namely, AdS_4 x S^2, R^1,3 x S^2, and dS_4 x S^2. Unlike conventional solutions, the bubbles of nothing introduced here occur where a two-sphere compactification manifold homogeneously degenerates.

@article{Blanco-Pillado2010, abstract = { We construct instanton solutions describing the decay of flux compactifications of a $6d$ gauge theory by generalizing the Kaluza-Klein bubble of nothing. The surface of the bubble is described by a smooth magnetically charged solitonic brane whose asymptotic flux is precisely that responsible for stabilizing the 4d compactification. We describe several instances of bubble geometries for the various vacua occurring in a $6d$ Einstein-Maxwell theory namely, AdS_4 x S^2, R^{1,3} x S^2, and dS_4 x S^2. Unlike conventional solutions, the bubbles of nothing introduced here occur where a {\em two}-sphere compactification manifold homogeneously degenerates. }, added-at = {2010-09-07T21:55:47.000+0200}, author = {Blanco-Pillado, Jose J. and Ramadhan, Handhika S. and Shlaer, Benjamin}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2e14e94724f1ed5061dd6320e57286ded/jpschaar}, description = {Decay of flux vacua to nothing}, interhash = {18056c703c258daff17e5f98376ed623}, intrahash = {e14e94724f1ed5061dd6320e57286ded}, keywords = {gravity instanton}, note = {cite arxiv:1009.0753 Comment: 31 pages, 15 figures}, timestamp = {2010-09-07T21:55:47.000+0200}, title = {Decay of flux vacua to nothing}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0753}, year = 2010 }