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Robustness of Inflation to Inhomogeneous Initial Conditions
Katy Clough, Eugene A. Lim, Brandon S. DiNunno +3
We consider the effects of inhomogeneous initial conditions in both the scalar field profile and the extrinsic curvature on different inflationary models. In particular, we compare…
On primordial equation of state transitions
Aditya Aravind, Dustin Lorshbough, Sonia Paban
We revisit the physics of transitions from a general equation of state parameter to the final stage of slow-roll inflation. We show that it is unlikely for the modes comprising the…
Tunneling from a Minkowski vacuum to an AdS vacuum: A new thin-wall regime
Ali Masoumi, Sonia Paban, Erick J. Weinberg
Using numerical and analytic methods, we study quantum tunneling from a Minkowski false vacuum to an anti-de Sitter true vacuum. Scanning the parameter space of theories with quart…