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Tunnelling for Large N

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-10-24 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this brief note, by applying the stochastic approach to multiple fields, we estimate the probability of tunneling between vacua in a landscape with N\cal N fields. We find that the probability can be enhanced by large N\cal N. When N\cal N saturates the dS entropy of some vacuum, the corresponding vacuum will be extremely unstable and be expected to rapidly decay. We discuss the implications of this result.

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@article{arxiv.0810.3654,
  title  = {Tunnelling for Large N},
  author = {Yun-Song Piao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3654},
  year   = {2008}
}

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3 pages, 1 eps figure

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