Hawking-Moss bounces and vacuum decay rates

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dc.creatorWeinberg, Erick J.
dc.date2006-12-14
dc.date2007-05-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:38:00Z
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dc.descriptionThe conventional interpretation of the Hawking-Moss (HM) solution implies a transition rate between vacua that depends only on the values of the potential in the initial vacuum and at the top of a potential barrier, leading to the implausible conclusion that transitions to distant vacua can be as likely as those to a nearby one. I analyze this issue using a nongravitational example with analogous properties. I show that such HM bounce do not give reliable rate calculations, but are instead related to the probability of finding a quasistable configuration at a local potential maximum.
dc.description4 pages, 2 figures; title changed, clarifications in text, typos corrected, references added; version to appear in journal
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0612146
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0612146
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.Lett.98:251303,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.251303
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/180568
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleHawking-Moss bounces and vacuum decay rates
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