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About the Coleman Instantons in D Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-03-09 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We identify an infinite class of unbounded potentials for which the Coleman instantons do not exist in D-dimensional spacetime. For such potentials, the decay of a false vacuum is described by the new instantons introduced in [5,6,4]. For each spacetime dimension D, we also construct the two different classes of potentials for which the instanton equations are exactly solvable.

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@article{arxiv.2111.13928,
  title  = {About the Coleman Instantons in D Dimensions},
  author = {Viatcheslav Mukhanov and Alexander Sorin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.13928},
  year   = {2022}
}

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