TY - JOUR
T1 - Exact Coleman-De Luccia instantons
AU - Kanno, Sugumi
AU - Soda, Jiro
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Jose Blanco-Pillado, Larry Ford, Hideo Kodama, Ben Shlaer and especially Misao Sasaki and Alex Vilenkin for useful and stimulating discussions. SK was supported in part by grant PHY-0855447 from the National Science Foundation. JS was supported in part by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Fund of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan No. 22540274, the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (No. 21244033, No. 22244030), the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Area No. 21111006, JSPS under the Japan-Russia Research Cooperative Program, the Grant-in-Aid for the Global COE Program “The Next Generation of Physics, Spun from Universality and Emergence”.
PY - 2012/5
Y1 - 2012/5
N2 - We present exact ColemanDe Luccia (CDL) instantons, which describe vacuum decay from Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, de Sitter (dS) space and Minkowski space to AdS space. We systematically obtain these exact solutions by considering deformation of Hawking-Moss (HM) instantons. We analytically calculate the action of instantons and discuss a subtlety in calculation of decay rates.
AB - We present exact ColemanDe Luccia (CDL) instantons, which describe vacuum decay from Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, de Sitter (dS) space and Minkowski space to AdS space. We systematically obtain these exact solutions by considering deformation of Hawking-Moss (HM) instantons. We analytically calculate the action of instantons and discuss a subtlety in calculation of decay rates.
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U2 - 10.1142/S021827181250040X
DO - 10.1142/S021827181250040X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84861921443
SN - 0218-2718
VL - 21
JO - International Journal of Modern Physics D
JF - International Journal of Modern Physics D
IS - 5
M1 - 1250040X
ER -