The fate of the false vacuum in einstein gravity theory with nonminimally-coupled scalar field

International Journal of Modern Physics D

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1063-1073

  Lee, Wonwoo ^a   Lee, Chul H ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bubble nucleation; False vacuum; Nonminimally coupled scalar field

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544439969     PISSN: 02182718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218271805006766     Document Type: Article

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