Collapse of Vacuum Bubbles in a Vacuum
arXiv:1006.3441 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.83.043512
Abstract
Motivated by the discovery of a plenitude of metastable vacua in a string landscape and the possibility of rapid tunneling between these vacua, we revisit the dynamics of a false vacuum bubble in a background de Sitter spacetime. We find that there exists a large parameter space that allows the bubble to collapse into a black hole or to form a wormhole. This may have interesting implications to inflationary physics.
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