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hep-th2004★ 37 cited
Decay of de Sitter vacua by thermal activation
Jaume Garriga, Ariel Megevand
Decay of a de Sitter vacuum may proceed through a "static" instanton, representing pair creation of critical bubbles separated by a distance comparable to the Hubble radius -- a pr…
hep-th2003★ 15 cited
Coincident brane nucleation and the neutralization of Λ
Jaume Garriga, Ariel Megevand
Nucleation of branes by a four-form field has recently been considered in string motivated scenarios for the neutralization of the cosmological constant. An interesting question in…
hep-th1993★ 5 cited
Strings And Non-Topological Solitons
R. Fiore, D. Galeazzi, L. Masperi +1
We have numerically calculated topological andnon-topological solitons in two spatial dimensions with Chern-Simons term. Their quantum stability, as well as that of the Maxwell vor…