Braneworld instantons

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/2/308MaRDI QIDQ4532766zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ruth Gregory, Antonio Padilla

Publication date 24 July 2002

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0107108

zbMATH Keywords

braneworldfalse vacuumFriedmann equationKaluza-Klein reduction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We derive the general equations of motion for a braneworld containing a (localized) domain wall. Euclideanization gives the geometry for braneworld false vacuum decay. We explicitly derive these instantons and compute the amplitude for false vacuum decay. We also show how to construct a toy ekpyrotic instanton. Finally, we comment on braneworlds with a compact spatial direction and the adS soliton.

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