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## V. CONCLUSIONS 

We have shown that a simple AdS$_{4}$ × S 1 flux compactification exhibits an instability to the nucleation of bubbles of nothing. The key feature of this geometry is the flux through the compactification cycle at the conformal boundary, which demands a source wherever the cycle degenerates. Appropriately, the field theoretic model considered has solitonic 2-brane solutions which are charged with respect to the axionic flux stabilizing the extra dimension. One can construct a bubble of nothing in this context as the spacetime sourced by an 

