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EXACT COLEMAN–DE LUCCIA INSTANTONS

SUGUMI KANNO

Institute of Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA

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JIRO SODA

Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S021827181250040XCited by:14 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We present exact Coleman–De 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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Instantons

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