PHASE TRANSITION OF A SCALAR FIELD IN A DE SITTER BACKGROUND: THE NUCLEATION RATE AT THE WKB APPROXIMATION

20 July 1989

journal article
Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in Modern Physics Letters A

Vol. 4 (14) , 1297-1306
https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217732389001489

Abstract

We rederive the Coleman-de Luccia and Hawking-Moss results on the probability of decay of a scalar field from a false to a true vacuum state by a straightforward generalization to the de Sitter background of the standard calculation in Minkowski space-time.

Keywords

PHASE TRANSITION
NUCLEATION RATE
SITTER BACKGROUND
WKB APPROXIMATION
SCALAR FIELD

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