Study of the Coleman–de Luccia instanton of the second order

DOI10.1088/0031-8949/74/2/016zbMATH Open1117.81108arXivgr-qc/0408012OpenAlexW3098103211MaRDI QIDQ5485591FDOQ5485591

Authors: Michal Demetrian 

Publication date: 30 August 2006

Published in: Physica Scripta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the second order Coleman - de Luccia instanton which appears as the curvature of the effective potential reaches a sufficiently large value. We show how one can find the approximative formula for this instanton by perturbative expansion in the case when the second derivative of the effective potential divided by the Hubble parameter squared is close to -10, and we perform a numerical study of this instanton in the case of quasi-exponential potential.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0408012

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Coleman-de Luccia instanton of the second order in a brane world

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