Collapse of Vacuum Bubbles in a Vacuum
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-02-23 v2
Abstract
Motivated by the discovery of a plenitude of metastable vacua in a string landscape and the possibility of rapid tunneling between these vacua, we revisit the dynamics of a false vacuum bubble in a background de Sitter spacetime. We find that there exists a large parameter space that allows the bubble to collapse into a black hole or to form a wormhole. This may have interesting implications to inflationary physics.
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@article{arxiv.1006.3441,
title = {Collapse of Vacuum Bubbles in a Vacuum},
author = {Kin-Wang Ng and Shang-Yung Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.3441},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
8 pages including 6 figures, LaTex; references added