Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: We construct an exact NUT-charged generalization of the Ellis-Bronnikov wormhole in the Einstein-phantom-scalar system. The solution is stationary, asymptotically locally flat at both ends and free of curvature singularities. It inherits characteristic features of the Taub-NUT geometry, including the Dirac-Misner string and closed timelike curves, while the absence of Killing horizons eliminates the horizon-induced infinite winding of geodesics and renders the spacetime geodesically complete. By allowing the phantom field to have a nontrivial scalar potential with an infinite sequence of AdS vacua, we also obtain an exact asymptotically locally AdS wormhole with a NUT charge, which interpolates between different vacua at its two asymptotic ends. Using the covariant phase space formalism, we show that the Hamiltonian charges associated with the two asymptotic regions are finite under appropriate scalar boundary conditions. By performing a double Wick rotation to Euclidean signature, we demonstrate that the conformal class of the resulting metric admits an ambi-Kähler structure.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Institutions: Osaka Institute of Technology, Rikkyo University
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7220738140