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General Solutions for Tunneling of Scalar Fields with Quartic Potentials in de Sitter Space

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-09 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The tunneling rates for scalar fields with quartic potentials in de Sitter space in the limit of no gravitational back reaction are calculated numerically and the results are fitted by analytic formulae.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9402247,
  title  = {General Solutions for Tunneling of Scalar Fields with Quartic Potentials in de Sitter Space},
  author = {Misao Sasaki and Ewan D. Stewart and Takahiro Tanaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9402247},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

(Contours in Figure 1 corrected, two-dimensional fitting coefficient corrected, references added.), 16 pages, KUNS 1245