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hep-th2009★ 3 cited
Stability in and of de Sitter space
Benjamin Shlaer
We demonstrate that possession of a single negative mode is not a sufficient criterion for an instanton to mediate exponential decay. For example, de Sitter space is generically st…
astro-ph.CO2009★ 113 cited
Gravitational Waves from Broken Cosmic Strings: The Bursts and the Beads
Louis Leblond, Benjamin Shlaer, Xavier Siemens
We analyze the gravitational wave signatures of a network of metastable cosmic strings. We consider the case of cosmic string instability to breakage, with no primordial population…