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We present a construction of domain walls in string theory. The domain walls can bridge both Minkowski and AdS string vacua. A key ingredient in the construction are novel classical Yang-Mills configurations, including instantons, which interpolate between toroidal Yang-Mills vacua. Our construction provides a concrete framework for the study of inflating metrics in string theory. In some cases, the accelerating space-time comes with a holographic description. The general form of the holographic dual is a field theory with parameters that vary over space-time.
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Maxfield, T., Sethi, S. Domain walls, triples and acceleration. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 66 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2014)066
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