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Nut Charged Space-times and Closed Timelike Curves on the Boundary

arXiv:hep-th/0407110 · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2005/01/049

Abstract

We consider higher dimensional generalizations of the four dimensional topological Taub-NUT-AdS solutions, where the angular spheres are replaced by planes and hyperboloids. The thermodynamics of these configurations is discussed to some extent. The results we find suggest that the entropy/area relation is always violated in the presence of a NUT charge. We argue also that the conjectured AdS/CFT correspondence may teach us something about the physics in spacetimes containing closed timelike curves. To this aim, we use the observation that the boundary metric of a (D+1)-dimensional Taub-NUT-AdS solution provides a D-dimensional generalization of the known Gödel-type spacetimes.

37 pages, 4 eps figures, JHEP style; minor additions, references and acknowledgements added

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