Vacuum decay and internal symmetries

Details Vacuum decay and internal symmetries Vacuum decay and internal symmetries

1996-09-11

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9609100v2

Phys.Rev. D55 (1997) 4903-4909

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

LaTex, 11 pages, No figures, one minor change

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.55.4903

We study the effects of internal symmetries on the decay by bubble nucleation of a metastable false vacuum. The zero modes about the bounce solution that are associated with the breaking of continuous internal symmetries result in an enhancement of the tunneling rate into vacua in which some of the symmetries of the initial state are spontaneously broken. We develop a general formalism for evaluating the effects of these zero modes on the bubble nucleation rate in both flat and curved space-times.

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