2007/06/19 by Adam R. Brown, Saswat Sarangi, Benjamin Shlaer +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.99.161601
published as Phys.Rev.Lett.99:161601,2007 · 4 pages, 2 figures, changes made to 'including gravity' section
arxiv created 2007/06/19 · openalex publication_date 2007/10/17 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Stringy effects on vacuum transitions are shown to include surprisingly large decay rates through very high potential barriers. This simple yet counterintuitive result will drastically modify the measure on the landscape of string vacua.