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Vacuum Decay in Time-Dependent Backgrounds
Patrick Draper, Manthos Karydas, Hao Zhang
We develop semiclassical methods for studying bubble nucleation in models with parameters that vary slowly in time. Introducing a more general rotation of the time contour allows a…
Neutralizing Topological Obstructions to Bubbles of Nothing
Patrick Draper, Benjamin Lillard, Carissa Skye
Theories with compact extra dimensions can exhibit a vacuum instability known as a bubble of nothing. These decay modes can be obstructed if the internal manifold is stabilized by…
JT Gravity Coupled to Fermions
Tom Banks, Patrick Draper, Bingnan Zhang
We argue that two-dimensional dilaton gravity models can all be derived from an analog of Jacobson's covariant version of the first law of thermodynamics. We then specialize to the…
Comments on the CKN Bound
Tom Banks, Patrick Draper
Cohen, Kaplan, and Nelson (CKN) conjectured that the UV and IR cutoffs of effective quantum field theories coupled to gravity are not independent, but are connected by the physics…
Transplanckian Censorship and the Local Swampland Distance Conjecture
Patrick Draper, Szilard Farkas
The swampland distance conjecture (SDC) addresses the ability of effective field theory to describe distant points in moduli space. It is natural to ask whether there is a local ve…
Schottky Anomaly of deSitter Black Holes
Jack Dinsmore, Patrick Draper, David Kastor +2
The interplay of black hole and cosmological horizons introduces distinctive thermodynamic behavior for deSitter black holes, including well-known upper bounds for the mass and ent…