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Exact Coleman-de Luccia Instantons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-12-09 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present exact Coleman-de Luccia (CdL) instantons, which describe vacuum decay from Anti de Sitter (AdS) space, de Sitter (dS) space and Minkowski space to AdS space. We systematically obtain these exact solutions by considering deformation of Hawking-Moss (HM) instantons. We analytically calculate decay rates and discuss a subtlety in the interpretation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1111.0720,
  title  = {Exact Coleman-de Luccia Instantons},
  author = {Sugumi Kanno and Jiro Soda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.0720},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

13 pages, 7 figures, references added, published version

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