The Late Time Behavior of False Vacuum Decay: Possible Implications for Cosmology and Metastable Inflating States

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dc.creatorKrauss, Lawrence M.
dc.creatorDent, James
dc.date2007-11-12
dc.date2007-11-24
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:38:40Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:38:40Z
dc.descriptionWe describe here how the late time behavior of the decaying states, which is predicted to deviate from an exponential form, while normally of insignificant consequence, may have important cosmological implications in the case of false vacuum decay. It may increase the likelihood of eternal inflation, and may help explain the likelihood of observing a small vacuum energy at late times, as well as arguing against decay into a large negative energy (anti-de Sitter space), vacuum state as has been motivated by some string theory considerations. Several interesting open questions are raised, including whether observing the cosmological configuration of a metastable universe can constrain its inferred lifetime.
dc.description4 pages, submitted to PRL, one reference changed, and changes to abstract and concluding sentences to stem possible confusions regarding observation and metastability
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1821
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1821
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.Lett.100:171301,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.171301
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/199647
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleThe Late Time Behavior of False Vacuum Decay: Possible Implications for Cosmology and Metastable Inflating States
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