Nonequilibrium fluctuations in cosmic vacuum decay
- 15 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 43 (2) , 375-378
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.43.375
Abstract
With the help of the Landau-Lifshitz theory for nonequilibrium fluctuations four recent phenomenological models for the decay of the effective cosmological constant are analyzed. The model of Ozer and Taha as well as the one of Chen and Wu successfully pass our test.Keywords
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