Hawking-Moss Tunneling with a Dirac-Born-Infeld Action
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-02-23 v2
Abstract
The Hawking-Moss tunneling rate for a field described by the Dirac-Born-Infeld action is calculated using a stochastic approach. We find that the effect of the non-trivial kinetic term is to enhance the tunneling rate, which can be exponentially significant. This result should be compared to the DBI enhancement found in the Coleman-de Luccia case.
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@article{arxiv.0802.0623,
title = {Hawking-Moss Tunneling with a Dirac-Born-Infeld Action},
author = {Daniel Wohns},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.0623},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, version accepted in Phys. Rev. D., additional references and example application