Rolling through a vacuum

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2013)081zbMATH Open1342.83553arXiv1304.6954OpenAlexW3101859483MaRDI QIDQ737837FDOQ737837

Authors: I-Sheng Yang, J. P. van der Schaar 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We clarify under what conditions slow-roll inflation can continue almost undisturbed, while briefly evolving through a (semi-classically) metastable false vacuum. Furthermore, we look at potential signatures in the primordial power spectrum that could point towards the existence of traversed metastable false vacua. Interestingly, the theoretical constraints for the existence of traversable metastable vacua imply that Planck should be able to detect the resulting features in the primordial power spectrum. In other words, if Planck does not see features this immediately implies the non-existence of metastable false vacua rolled through during the inflationary epoch.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6954

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zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravitycosmology of theories beyond the SMdS vacua in string theorysolitons monopoles and instantons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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