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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…