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Bubbles of Nothing: The Tunneling Potential Approach
J. J. Blanco-Pillado, J. R. Espinosa, J. Huertas +1
Bubbles of nothing (BoNs) describe the decay of spacetimes with compact dimensions and are thus of fundamental importance for many higher dimensional theories proposed beyond the S…
Tunneling Potentials to Nothing
J. J. Blanco-Pillado, J. R. Espinosa, J. Huertas +1
The catastrophic decay of a spacetime with compact dimensions, via bubbles of nothing (BoNs), is probably a generic phenomenon. BoNs admit a 4-dimensional description as singular C…
Exactly Solvable Vacuum Decays with Gravity
J. R. Espinosa, J. -F. Fortin, J. Huertas
Using a new approach to the analysis of false vacuum decay based on the so-called tunneling potential, we develop a general method to find scalar potentials with a false vacuum wit…
Pseudo-Bounces vs. New Instantons
J. R. Espinosa, J. Huertas
Some false vacua do not decay via bounces. This usually happens when a flat direction of the tunneling action due to scale invariance is lifted to a sloping valley by a scale break…