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Instantons and no wormholes in AdS3×S3×CY2

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Physical Review D

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We study supergravity instantons sourced by axion (and saxion) fields in the Euclidean AdS 3 ×S 3 ×CY 2 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 (generalisations of) D-instantons and spacelike geodesics are sub-extremal 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, lift to Euclidean strings wrapping 2-cycles in the CY 2. The dual of these instantons are expected to be worldsheet instantons of the D1-D5 CFT.

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