Black holes, oscillating instantons and the Hawking-Moss transition

2020/03/31 by Ruth Gregory, Ian G. Moss, Naritaka Oshita · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #AdS black hole #Anti-de Sitter space #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Bubble #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #De Sitter space #De Sitter universe #Instanton #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Schwarzschild radius #Spacetime #de Sitter–Schwarzschild metric #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep07(2020)024

published as JHEP 07 (2020) 024 · 24 pages, 10 figures, version accepted for publication in JHEP

openalex created_date 2020/03/23 · arxiv created 2020/06/13 · openalex publication_date 2020/07/01 · arxiv updated 2020/07/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

A bstract Static oscillating bounces in Schwarzschild de Sitter spacetime are investigated. The oscillating bounce with many oscillations gives a super-thick bubble wall, for which the total vacuum energy increases while the mass of the black hole decreases due to the conservation of Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) mass. We show that the transition rate of such an “up-tunneling” consuming the seed black hole is higher than that of the Hawking- Moss transition. The correspondence of analyses in the static and global coordinates in the Euclidean de Sitter space is also investigated.

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