Hawking-Moss bounces and vacuum decay rates

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.251303zbMATH Open1228.81217arXivhep-th/0612146OpenAlexW1997658639WikidataQ80745049 ScholiaQ80745049MaRDI QIDQ3107771FDOQ3107771

Authors: Erick J. Weinberg 

Publication date: 26 December 2011

Published in: Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The conventional interpretation of the Hawking-Moss (HM) solution implies a transition rate between vacua that depends only on the values of the potential in the initial vacuum and at the top of a potential barrier, leading to the implausible conclusion that transitions to distant vacua can be as likely as those to a nearby one. I analyze this issue using a nongravitational example with analogous properties. I show that such HM bounce do not give reliable rate calculations, but are instead related to the probability of finding a quasistable configuration at a local potential maximum.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0612146

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

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• THE GLOBAL STRUCTURE OF THE INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE

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