Evolution of bubbles in a vacuum
- 15 October 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 40 (8) , 2511-2518
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.40.2511
Abstract
This paper examines the evolution of spherical bubbles in a vacuum for all possible values of the controlling parameters within the context of the general-relativistic thin-wall approximation. We propose a general classification of the admissible solutions and a graphical-numerical algorithm for their explicit construction from any given set of initial data. The different sectors in the space of the parameters are identified and a map of regions is constructed where single families of solutions can exist.Keywords
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