Late time behavior of false vacuum decay: Possible implications for cosmology and metastable inflating states

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Krauss, Lawrence M ^a,b   Dent, James ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

ETERNAL INFLATION; QUANTUM MECHANICAL DECAY; VACUUM DECAY; VACUUM STATE;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 43049143028     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.171301     Document Type: Article

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