The tunneling hamiltonian representation of false vacuum decay: III. Application to nucleation of an inflationary universe
| dc.creator | Beckwith, A. W. | |
| dc.date | 2004-06-24 | |
| dc.date | 2004-07-12 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:31:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:31:17Z | |
| dc.description | The tunneling hamiltonian has proven to be a useful method in many body physics to treat particle tunneling between different states represented as wave functions. Here we apply a generalization of a way we formed appropriate wave functionals in CDW to how to present nucleation of an inflationary universe . This allows us to make a generalization of the model used for inflation when the inflaton is trapped in a false vacuum and, after tunneling, makes a first order phase transition to initiate nucleation of an inflationary universe, in which tunneling between states which are wavefunctionals of a scalar quantum field are considered . We explain how we can have particle - anti particle pairs as a model for how nucleation occurs and construct a potential which satisfies the flat slow roll condition even while using a modified false vacuum construction to this problem | |
| dc.description | 23 pages, 2 figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0406054 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0406054 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/57758 | |
| dc.subject | Mathematical Physics | |
| dc.subject | 46N50;85A40 | |
| dc.title | The tunneling hamiltonian representation of false vacuum decay: III. Application to nucleation of an inflationary universe | |
| dc.type | text |