Barnacles and gravity

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2017)080MaRDI QIDQ1705963zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors James H. C. Scargill

Publication date 19 March 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.09010

zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravitysolitons monopoles and instantons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton equations (35Q51) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: Theories with more than one vacuum allow quantum transitions between them, which may proceed via bubble nucleation; theories with more than two vacua posses additional decay modes in which the wall of a bubble may further decay. The instantons which mediate such a process have $O(3)$ symmetry (in four dimensions, rather than the usual $O(4)$ symmetry of homogeneous vacuum decay), and have been called `barnacles'; previously they have been studied in flat space, in the thin wall limit, and this paper extends the analysis to include gravity. It is found that there are regions of parameter space in which, given an initial bubble, barnacles are the favoured subsequent decay process, and that the inclusion of gravity can enlarge this region. The relation to other heterogeneous vacuum decay scenarios, as well as some of the phenomenological implications of barnacles are briefly discussed.

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• Black holes as bubble nucleation sites
• Cosmic bubble collisions
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• Semiclassical approach to heterogeneous vacuum decay
• Systematics of aligned axions

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