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“As soon as the decay rate per unit space time volume Γ of the false vacuum is non zero, the asymptotic space is not dS.”
From The cosmological Higgstory of the vacuum instability (2015) · cites this paper as [72]
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“There are two critical values of the decay rate [72], both valued around H 4 Λ , with H Λ being the Hubble rate of the would-be de Sitter region.”
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“Finally, when the decay rate is even slower than the second critical point, then bubbles do not percolate, and the asymptotic spacetime is the one called 'false vacuum eternal inflation'.”
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“The precise value of the second critical point is unknown, but is bounded to be in the range [72] 1.1 × 10 -6 ≤ Γ 1 /H 4 Λ ≤ 0.24.”
From The cosmological Higgstory of the vacuum instability (2015) · cites this paper as [72]
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“If the decay rate lies between these two critical points, then bubbles percolate and long chains of bubbles form, connecting arbitrarily distant point in the otherwise dS space.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Guth, A. H., & Weinberg, E. J.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Venue
- Nuclear Physics B
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1983-02
- Volume
- 212
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 321-364
- ISSN
- 0550-3213 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2069871288
- Cited by
- 576
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 19
- FWCI
- 26.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nuclear Physics B (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Keywords
- first-order phase transition, bubble nucleation, quantum tunneling, bubble clusters, Higgs potential, inflation (cosmology)
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