False vacuum decay in the de Sitter space-time

DOI10.1007/BF02557243zbMath0973.81083arXivgr-qc/9905093MaRDI QIDQ5930837

Valery A. Rubakov, Sergey Sibiryakov

Publication date: 20 November 2001

Published in: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9905093

zbMATH Keywords

path integralsemiclassical approximationColeman-De Lucciaconformal vacuumcurved spacetimede Sitter metricdecay widthfalse-vacuum decayHawking-Mossinstantonpath integral approachscalar particlestrue vacuumtunneling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20)

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Cites Work

• The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time

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