Vacuum decay in the Lorentzian path integral

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/05/041MaRDI QIDQ5099317zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Takumi Hayashi, Kohei Kamada, Naritaka Oshita, Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Publication date 31 August 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09284

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological phase transitionsphysics of the early universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measure (Gaussian, cylindrical, etc.) and integrals (Feynman, path, Fresnel, etc.) on manifolds (46T12) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We apply the Lorentzian path integral to the decay of a false vacuum and estimate the false-vacuum decay rate. To make the Lorentzian path integral convergent, the deformation of an integral contour is performed by following the Picard-Lefschetz theory. We show that the nucleation rate of a critical bubble, for which the corresponding bounce action is extremized, has the same exponent as the Euclidean approach. We also extend our computation to the nucleation of a bubble larger or smaller than the critical one to which the Euclidean formalism is not applicable.

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