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Tunneling and propagation of vacuum bubbles on dynamical backgrounds

Dennis Simona, Julian Adameka, Aleksandar Rakića and Jens C. Niemeyera,b

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In the context of bubble universes produced by a first-order phase transition with large nucleation rates compared to the inverse dynamical time scale of the parent bubble, we extend the usual analysis to non-vacuum backgrounds. In particular, we provide semi-analytic and numerical results for the modified nucleation rate in FLRW backgrounds, as well as a parameter study of bubble walls propagating into inhomogeneous (LTB) or FLRW spacetimes, both in the thin-wall approximation. We show that in our model, matter in the background often prevents bubbles from successful expansion and forces them to collapse. For cases where they do expand, we give arguments why the effects on the interior spacetime are small for a wide range of reasonable parameters and discuss the limitations of the employed approximations.

Keywords

initial conditions and eternal universe

cosmological phase transitions

inflation

physics of the early universe

 

E-print Number: 0908.2757

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PACS

98.80.-k Cosmology

04.20.Gz Spacetime topology, causal structure, spinor structure

95.30.Sf Relativity and gravitation

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 11 (November 2009)

Received 28 August 2009, accepted for publication 24 September 2009

Published 5 November 2009



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