Thick domain wall universes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/7/318zbMATH Open0942.83071arXivgr-qc/9902081OpenAlexW3098170475MaRDI QIDQ4699995FDOQ4699995

Ruth Gregory, Filipe Bonjour, Christos Charmousis

Publication date: 18 November 1999

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

Abstract: We investigate the spacetime of a thick gravitating domain wall for a general potential $V(Phi)$. Using general analytical arguments we show that all nontrivial solutions fall into two categories: those interpretable as an isolated domain wall with a cosmological event horizon, and those which are pure false vacuum de Sitter solutions. Although this latter solution is always unstable to the field rolling coherently to its true vacuum, we show that there is an additional instability to wall formation if the scalar field does not couple too strongly to gravity. Using the $lambdaPh{i}^4$ and sine-Gordon models as illustrative examples, we investigate the phase space of the gravitating domain wall in detail numerically, following the solutions from weak to strong gravity. We find excellent agreement with the analytic work. Then, we analyse the domain wall in the presence of a cosmological constant finding again the two kinds of solutions, wall and de Sitter, even in the presence of a negative cosmological constant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9902081

zbMATH Keywords

solitonstopological defectspure false vacuum de Sitter solutionsspacetime of a thick gravitating domain wall

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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