Evolution of Vacuum Bubbles Embeded in Inhomogeneous Spacetimes
Abstract
We study the propagation of bubbles of new vacuum in a radially inhomogeneous background filled with dust or radiation, and including a cosmological constant, as a first step in the analysis of the influence of inhomogeneities in the evolution of an inflating region. We also compare the cases with dust and radiation backgrounds and show that the evolution of the bubble in radiation environments is notably different from that in the corresponding dust cases, both for homogeneous and inhomogeneous ambients, leading to appreciable differences in the evolution of the proper radius of the bubble.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1606.07500,
title = {Evolution of Vacuum Bubbles Embeded in Inhomogeneous Spacetimes},
author = {F. A. Teppa Pannia and S. E. Perez Bergliaffa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.07500},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
18 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (new version with a few cosmetic changes w.r.t. the published one)