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Can gravity plus twisting fields create layered anti-de Sitter spaces?

Giuseppe Dibitetto, Nicolò Petri

June 3, 2026

In theories where gravity couples to a scalar field (dilaton) and a pseudoscalar (axion), researchers solved Einstein's equations to find geometries shaped like anti-de Sitter space times an interval. They mapped the solution space as a dynamical system, identified special exact solutions across all dimensions, and verified numerical solutions match string theory predictions.
Published as $\text{AdS}_D\times I$ solutions in axio-dilaton gravity arXiv:2606.04933
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