English

Thin and thick bubble walls II: expansion in the wall width

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2024-04-03 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study the dynamics of a cosmological bubble wall beyond the approximation of an infinitely thin wall. In a previous paper, we discussed the range of validity of this approximation and estimated the first-order corrections due to the finite width. Here, we introduce a systematic method to obtain the wall equation of motion and its profile at each order in the wall width. We discuss in detail the next-to-next-to-leading-order terms. We use the results to treat the growth of spherical bubbles and the evolution of small deformations of planar walls.

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@article{arxiv.2401.03102,
  title  = {Thin and thick bubble walls II: expansion in the wall width},
  author = {Ariel Mégevand and Federico Agustín Membiela},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.03102},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

34 pages, 8 figures

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