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Vacuum decays around spinning black holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-01-10 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We investigate a vacuum decay around a spinning seed black hole by using the Israel junction condition and conclude that the spin of black hole would suppress a vacuum decay rate compared to that for a non-spinning case, provided that the surface of vacuum bubble has its ellipsoidal shape characterized by the Kerr geometry. We also find out that in the existence of a near-extremal black hole, a false vacuum state can be more stabilized than the case of the Coleman-de Luccia solution. A few necessary assumptions to carry the calculations are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1909.01378,
  title  = {Vacuum decays around spinning black holes},
  author = {Naritaka Oshita and Kazushige Ueda and Masahide Yamaguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.01378},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

20 pages, 10 figures, typos corrected