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

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dc.creatorBanks, T.
dc.date2002-11-18
dc.date2003-01-08
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:14:32Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T04:14:32Z
dc.descriptionThis 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.
dc.description34 pages, JHEP3 LaTex, 3 eps figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0211160
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0211160
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/51654
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleHeretics of the False Vacuum: Gravitational Effects On and Of Vacuum Decay 2
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