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Quantum Creation of the Randall-Sundrum Bubble

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We investigate the semiclassical instability of the Randall-Sundrum brane world. We carefully analyze the bubble solution with the Randall-Sundrum background, which expresses the decay of the brane world. We evaluate the decay probability following the Euclidean path integral approach to quantum gravity. Since a bubble rapidly expands after the nucleation, the entire spacetime will be occupied by such bubbles.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0111070,
  title  = {Quantum Creation of the Randall-Sundrum Bubble},
  author = {H. Ochiai and D. Ida and T. Shiromizu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0111070},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

13 pages, 6 figures, To appear in Prog. Theor. Phys