Heretics of the False Vacuum: Gravitational Effects On and Of Vacuum Decay 2

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2002-11-18

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0211160v2

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

34 pages, JHEP3 LaTex, 3 eps figures

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This paper reexamines the question of vacuum decay in theories of quantum gravity. In particular it suggests that decay into stable flat or AdS vacua, never occurs. Instead, vacuum decay occurs, if at all, into a cosmological spacetime. If the latter has negative cosmological constant, it undergoes a Big Crunch, which suggests that the whole picture is inconsistent. The question of decay of de Sitter space must be very carefully defined.

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