Rolling through a vacuum

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2013)081MaRDI QIDQ737837zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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