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Thin and thick bubble walls III: wall energy

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-01-13 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the energy-momentum tensor of a bubble wall beyond the approximation of an infinitely thin wall. To this end, we discuss the proper decomposition into wall and bulk contributions, and we use a systematic method to calculate the energy-momentum tensor at any order in the wall width. We consider the specific examples of spherical bubbles with different initial configurations, and we compare our approximations with a numerical computation.

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@article{arxiv.2501.05612,
  title  = {Thin and thick bubble walls III: wall energy},
  author = {Ariel Mégevand and Federico Agustín Membiela},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.05612},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

39 pages, 18 figures

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