Analytic Coleman-De Luccia Geometries
High Energy Physics - Theory
2012-07-03 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We present the necessary and sufficient conditions for a Euclidean scale factor to be a solution of the Coleman-De Luccia equations for some analytic potential , with a Lorentzian continuation describing the growth of a bubble of lower-energy vacuum surrounded by higher-energy vacuum. We then give a set of explicit examples that satisfy the conditions and thus are closed-form analytic examples of Coleman-De Luccia geometries.
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@article{arxiv.1109.0011,
title = {Analytic Coleman-De Luccia Geometries},
author = {Xi Dong and Daniel Harlow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.0011},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
18 pages, 5 figures; (v3) removed a footnote, other minor corrections, version published in JCAP