Conformal Universe as false vacuum decay
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-05-27 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We point out that the (pseudo-)conformal Universe scenario may be realized as decay of conformally invariant, metastable vacuum, which proceeds via spontaneous nucleation and subsequent growth of a bubble of a putative new phase. We study perturbations about the bubble and show that their leading late-time properties coincide with those inherent in the original models with homogeneously rolling backgrounds. In particular, the perturbations of a spectator dimension-zero field have flat power spectrum.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1502.05897,
title = {Conformal Universe as false vacuum decay},
author = {M. Libanov and V. Rubakov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.05897},
year = {2015}
}
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21 pages, 1 figure