False vacuum decay via Coleman - de Luccia instanton in the theory with quasi-exponential potential

2004/05/03 by Michal Demetrian, Demetrian, Michal
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0405014

2 pages, 1 figure

arxiv created 2004/05/03 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

The necessary and sufficient condition for the false vacuum decay in a de Sitter universe via Coleman - de Luccia instanton is applied on the scalar field with quasi - exponential potential.

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