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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.

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@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

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