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The conventional interpretation of the Hawking-Moss (HM) solution implies a transition rate between vacua that depends only on the values of the potential in the initial vacuum and at the top of a potential barrier, leading to the…
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We propose a new measure for eternal inflation that includes both conditions, large field fluctuations and smooth homogeneous domains, in the self reproducing probability estimate. We show that due to the increasing inhomogeneities in the…
In this letter, we present the first study of Hawking radiation as a tunneling process within the framework of non-commutative (NC) gauge theory of gravity. First, we reconstruct the non-commutative Schwarzschild black hole (NC SBH) within…
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