An application of the renormalization group to the calculation of the vacuum decay rate in flat and curved space-time
arXiv:hep-ph/0412182 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.75.047701
Abstract
I show that an application of renormalization group arguments may lead to significant corrections to the vacuum decay rate for phase transitions in flat and curved space-time. It can also give some information regarding its dependence on the parameters of the theory, including the cosmological constant in the case of decay in curved space-time.
arXiv comment10 pages, LaTeX, various comments and references added
References in corpus (20)
- de Sitter Vacua in String Theory
- The effective potential and the renormalisation group
- IMPROVED METASTABILITY BOUNDS ON THE STANDARD MODEL HIGGS MASS
- Renormalization Group Improvement of the Effective Potential in Massive O(N) Symmetric Theory
- Improving the Effective Potential
- Oscillating bounce solutions and vacuum tunneling in de Sitter spacetime
- Renormalization-Group Improved Effective Lagrangian for Interacting Theories in Curved Spacetime
- Vacuum Decay in Theories with Symmetry Breaking by Radiative Corrections
- Renormalization-group running of the cosmological constant and the fate of the universe
- Gauge independence of the bubble nucleation rate in theories with radiative symmetry breaking
- Cosmological constant, renormalization group and Planck scale physics
- A Consistent Calculation of Bubble-Nucleation Rates
- Negative mode problem in false vacuum decay with gravity
- Fluctuation corrections to bubble nucleation
- The number of negative modes of the oscillating bounces
- Fluctuations about Cosmological Instantons
- Multi-scale Renormalisation Group Improvement of the Effective Potential
- A criterion for bubble formation in de Sitter universe
- False vacuum decay by self-consistent bounces in four dimensions
- Derivative expansion and gauge independence of the false vacuum decay rate in various gauges