dc.contributor.author |
Garriga, J |
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dc.contributor.author |
Shlaer, Benjamin |
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dc.contributor.author |
Vilenkin, A |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2018-10-08T22:55:11Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2011 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2011(11):035-035 01 Nov 2011 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1475-7516 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/39631 |
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dc.description.abstract |
We investigate the recent suggestion that a Minkowski vacuum is either absolutely stable, or it has a divergent decay rate and thus fails to have a locally Minkowski description. The divergence comes from boost integration over momenta of the vacuum bubbles. We point out that a prototypical example of false-vacuum decay is pair production in a uniform electric field, so if the argument leading to the divergence is correct, it should apply to this case as well. We provide evidence that no catastrophic vacuum instability occurs in a constant electric field, indicating that the argument cannot be right. Instead, we argue that the boost integration that leads to the divergence is unnecessary: when all possible fluctuations of the vacuum bubble are included, the quantum state of the bubble is invariant under Lorentz boosts. |
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dc.publisher |
IOP Publishing |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.rights.uri |
http://ioppublishing.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/J-VAR-LF-0216-Author-Rights-New-5.pdf |
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dc.subject |
hep-th |
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dc.subject |
hep-th |
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dc.subject |
gr-qc |
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dc.title |
Minkowski vacua can be metastable |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1088/1475-7516/2011/11/035 |
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pubs.volume |
11 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA |
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pubs.author-url |
http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.3422v1 |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
700391 |
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pubs.org-id |
Science |
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pubs.org-id |
Physics |
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pubs.arxiv-id |
1109.3422 |
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pubs.number |
035 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2017-10-25 |
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