ANTI-DE SITTER WORMHOLE KINK

The metric describing a given finite sector of a four-dimensional asym ptotically anti-de Sitter wormhole can be transformed into the metric of the time constant sections of a Tangherlini black hole in a five-di mensional anti-de Sitter spacetime when one allows light cones to tip over on the hypersurfaces according to the conservation laws of an one -kink. The resulting kinked metric can be maximally extended, then giv ing rise to an instantonic structure on the Euclidean continuation of both the Tangherlini time and the radial coordinate. In the semiclassi cal regime, this kink is related to the existence of closed timelike c urves.