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False vacuum decay is a key feature in quantum field theories and exhibits a distinct signature in the early Universe cosmology. It has recently been suggested that the false vacuum decay is catalyzed by a black hole (BH), which might cause…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-14 Takumi Hayashi , Kohei Kamada , Naritaka Oshita , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Does circumventing the curvature singularity of the Kerr black hole affects the timescale of the scalar cloud formation around it? By definition, the scalar cloud, forms a gravitational atom with hydrogen-like bound states, lying on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-31 Mohsen Khodadi , Reza Pourkhodabakhshi

Bubbles of nothing are a class of vacuum decay processes present in some theories with compactified extra dimensions. We investigate the existence and properties of bubbles of nothing in models where the scalar pseudomoduli controlling the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-11 Patrick Draper , Isabel Garcia Garcia , Benjamin Lillard

It has been suggested some time ago that many black hole properties are not specific to gravity, but rather are shared by a large class of objects, the so-called saturons, that saturate the quantum field theoretic upper bound on microstate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-24 Giacomo Contri , Gia Dvali , Otari Sakhelashvili

This paper investigates the dynamics of thin-shell in the presence of perfect fluid as well as the scalar field. We formulate the equations of motion using Israel thin-shell formalism by taking the interior and exterior regions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-20 M. Sharif , Faisal Javed

The necessary and sufficient condition for the false vacuum decay in a de Sitter universe via Coleman - de Luccia instanton is applied on the scalar field with quasi - exponential potential.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Michal Demetrian

A massive spin-2 field can grow unstably around a black hole, giving rise to a potential probe of the existence of such fields. In this work, we use time-domain evolutions to study such instabilities. Considering the linear regime by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-19 William E. East , Nils Siemonsen

We study false vacuum decay catalyzed by black holes. We consider a scalar field model with unstable potential in the background of a dilaton black hole in two dimensions. The model reproduces many features of the Schwarzschild black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-19 Bowen Hu , Kohei Kamada , Andrey Shkerin

We investigate the role of nonperturbative, bubble-like inhomogeneities on the decay rate of false-vacuum states in two and three-dimensional scalar field theories. The inhomogeneities are induced by setting up large-amplitude oscillations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Marcelo Gleiser , Barrett Rogers , Joel Thorarinson

In models with a low quantum gravity scale, a well-motivated reason to expect quark and lepton fields are localized but physically separated is to avoid proton decay. This could happen in a ``fat-brane'' or in an additional, orthogonal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Tao Han , Graham D. Kribs , Bob McElrath

It is well known that celestial bodies tend to be spherical due to gravity and that rotation produces deviations from this sphericity. We discuss what is known and expected about the shape of black holes' horizons from their formation to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-11 María E. Gabach Clement

We explore the structure of shadow for a Kerr-de Sitter black hole with a non-magnetized, pressureless plasma surrounding it. Specific plasma distributions are considered to separate the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and find the photon regions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-16 Abhishek Chowdhuri , Arpan Bhattacharyya

In the decay process of metastable vacua in quantum field theories, the bounce solution, a classical solution in Euclideanized theories, is helpful in calculating the decay rate. Recently, the bounce solution with a conical singularity has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-23 Yutaka Ookouchi , Ryota Sato , Sohei Tsukahara

We investigate and classify the possible types of false vacuum bubbles in Einstein gravity. The false vacuum bubbles can occur only if gravity is taken into account. We show that there exist solutions only with compact geometries. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-06 Bum-Hoon Lee , Chul H. Lee , Wonwoo Lee , Changheon Oh

We study analytically the shadow cast by the rotating black hole in the perfect fluid dark matter. The apparent shape of the shadow depends upon the black hole spin $a$ and the perfect fluid dark matter intensity parameter $k$ ($k>0$). In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Xian Hou , Zhaoyi Xu , Jiancheng Wang

We study the effects of a fixed de Sitter geometry background in scenarios of false vacuum decay. It is currently understood that bubble nucleation processes associated with first order phase transitions are particularly important in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-12 Juan S. Cruz , Stephan Brandt , Maximilian Urban

We obtain an exact Kerr-like black hole solution by solving the corresponding gravitational field equations in Einstein-bumblebee gravity model where Lorentz symmetry is spontaneously broken once a vector field acquires a vacuum expectation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Chikun Ding , Changqing Liu , R. Casana , A. Cavalcante

In electrovacuum stationary, asymptotically flat black holes in scalar-tensor theories of gravity are described by the Kerr-Newman family of solutions, just as in general relativity. We show that there exist two mechanisms which can render…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-23 Vitor Cardoso , Isabella P. Carucci , Paolo Pani , Thomas P. Sotiriou

We investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in Kerr-(anti-)de Sitter black holes under the scattering of a scalar field. We test the conjecture in terms of whether the black hole can exceed the extremal condition with respect to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-18 Bogeun Gwak

In a previous work we obtained exact solutions for the proper time quantum mechanics of a thin dust shell, collapsing in a vacuum. We extend these results to the quantum collapse of a dust shell surrounding a pre-existing black hole. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-18 Cenalo Vaz