The Emergent Universe scheme and Tunneling
arXiv:1406.0922 · doi:10.1063/1.4891114
Abstract
We present an alternative scheme for an Emergent Universe scenario, developed previously in , where the universe is initially in a static state supported by a scalar field located in a false vacuum. The universe begins to evolve when, by quantum tunneling, the scalar field decays into a state of true vacuum. The Emergent Universe models are interesting since they provide specific examples of non-singular inflationary universes.
10 pages, 6 figures. Talk given at the 2nd Russian-Spanish meeting on particle physics at all scales, Saint Petersburg (Russia), October 2013