Thin-wall vacuum decay in the presence of a compact dimension
High Energy Physics - Theory
2025-12-16 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We study the problem of false vacuum decay in arbitrary dimensions, in the presence of gravity, and compute the transition probability within the thin-wall approximation, generalising the results of Coleman and de Luccia. In the particular case of one compact dimension, we present explicit formulae for the Euclidean Bounce configuration that drives the transition from a de Sitter to Minkowski or from a Minkowski to anti-de Sitter vacua.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2405.16920,
title = {Thin-wall vacuum decay in the presence of a compact dimension},
author = {Ignatios Antoniadis and Daniele Bielli and Auttakit Chatrabhuti and Hiroshi Isono},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.16920},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
26 pages, 2 figures. V2: published version, 29 pages, 2 figures