A Wrinkle in Coleman - De Luccia
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v2 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Stringy effects on vacuum transitions are shown to include surprisingly large decay rates through very high potential barriers. This simple, yet counter-intuitive result will drastically modify the measure on the landscape of string vacua.
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@article{arxiv.0706.0485,
title = {A Wrinkle in Coleman - De Luccia},
author = {Adam R. Brown and Saswat Sarangi and Benjamin Shlaer and Amanda Weltman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.0485},
year = {2008}
}