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A Simple System For Coleman-De Luccia Transitions
Kate Eckerle
This paper presents a simple framework that organizes thin-wall Coleman-De Luccia instantons based on the Euclidean geometries of their original and tunneled vacuum patches. We con…
The Axidental Universe
Thomas C. Bachlechner, Kate Eckerle, Oliver Janssen +1
Theories with several hundred axion fields have enormous numbers of distinct meta-stable minima. A small fraction of these local minima have vacuum energy compatible with current m…
Axion Landscape Cosmology
Thomas C. Bachlechner, Kate Eckerle, Oliver Janssen +1
We study the cosmology of complex multi-axion theories. With O(100) fields and GUT scale energies these theories contain a vast number of vacua, inflationary trajectories and a nat…
Systematics of Aligned Axions
Thomas C. Bachlechner, Kate Eckerle, Oliver Janssen +1
We describe a novel technique that renders theories of axions tractable, and more generally can be used to efficiently analyze a large class of periodic potentials of arbitrary…
Axions of Evil
Thomas C. Bachlechner, Kate Eckerle, Oliver Janssen +1
We provide a systematic framework for theories of multiple axions. We discover a novel type of "alignment" that renders even very complex theories analytically tractable. Theories…
Random Field Theories in The Mirror Quintic Moduli Space
Kate Eckerle, Brian Greene
We investigate the distribution of field theories that arise from the low energy limit of flux vacua built on type IIB string theory compactified on the mirror quintic. For a large…