scholarly journals De Sitter decays to infinity

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Draper ◽  
Isabel Garcia Garcia ◽  
Benjamin Lillard
Keyword(s):  
Decay Rate ◽  
Extra Dimensions ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Scalar Potential ◽  
Realistic Model ◽  
Decay Process ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Vacuum Decay ◽  
Analytic Approximations

Abstract Bubbles of nothing are a class of vacuum decay processes present in some theories with compactified extra dimensions. We investigate the existence and properties of bubbles of nothing in models where the scalar pseudomoduli controlling the size of the extra dimensions are stabilized at positive vacuum energy, which is a necessary feature of any realistic model. We map the construction of bubbles of nothing to a four-dimensional Coleman-De Luccia problem and establish necessary conditions on the asymptotic behavior of the scalar potential for the existence of suitable solutions. We perform detailed analyses in the context of five-dimensional theories with metastable dS4× S1 vacua, using analytic approximations and numerical methods to calculate the decay rate. We find that bubbles of nothing sometimes exist in potentials with no ordinary Coleman-De Luccia decay process, and that in the examples we study, when both processes exist, the bubble of nothing decay rate is typically faster. Our methods can be generalized to other stabilizing potentials and internal manifolds.

scholarly journals Testing swampland conjectures with machine learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nana Cabo Bizet ◽  
Cesar Damian ◽  
Oscar Loaiza-Brito ◽  
Damián Kaloni Mayorga Peña ◽  
J. A. Montañez-Barrera
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Matrix Theory ◽  
Scalar Potential ◽  
Supervised Machine Learning ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Isotropic Torus

Abstract We consider Type IIB compactifications on an isotropic torus $$T^6$$T6 threaded by geometric and non geometric fluxes. For this particular setup we apply supervised machine learning techniques, namely an artificial neural network coupled to a genetic algorithm, in order to obtain more than sixty thousand flux configurations yielding to a scalar potential with at least one critical point. We observe that both stable AdS vacua with large moduli masses and small vacuum energy as well as unstable dS vacua with small tachyonic mass and large energy are absent, in accordance to the refined de Sitter conjecture. Moreover, by considering a hierarchy among fluxes, we observe that perturbative solutions with small values for the vacuum energy and moduli masses are favored, as well as scenarios in which the lightest modulus mass is much smaller than the corresponding AdS vacuum scale. Finally we apply some results on random matrix theory to conclude that the most probable mass spectrum derived from this string setup is that satisfying the Refined de Sitter and AdS scale conjectures.

scholarly journals Inflation from the internal volume in type IIB/F-theory compactification

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (08) ◽  
pp. 1950042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignatios Antoniadis ◽  
Yifan Chen ◽  
George K. Leontaris
Keyword(s):  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Scalar Potential ◽  
Closed String ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Moduli Stabilization ◽  
Cosmological Inflation ◽  
Kähler Potential ◽  
Internal Volume ◽  
Perturbative Corrections

We study the cosmological inflation within a recently proposed framework of perturbative moduli stabilization in type IIB/F-theory compactifications on Calabi–Yau threefolds. The stabilization mechanism utilizes three stacks of magnetized 7-branes and relies on perturbative corrections to the Kähler potential that grow logarithmically in the transverse sizes of co-dimension two due to local tadpoles of closed string states in the bulk. The inflaton is the Kähler modulus associated with the internal compactification volume that starts rolling down the scalar potential from an initial condition around its maximum. Although the parameter space allows moduli stabilization in de Sitter space, the resulting number of e-foldings is too low. An extra uplifting source of the vacuum energy is then required to achieve phenomenologically viable inflation and a positive (although tiny) vacuum energy at the minimum. We discuss a class of uplifting potentials arising from strongly coupled matter fields. In a particular case, they reproduce the effect of the new Fayet–Iliopoulos term recently discussed in a supergravity context, that can be written for a non-R-symmetry U(1) and is gauge invariant at the Lagrangian level.

scholarly journals Instanton interaction in de Sitter space–time

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (33) ◽  
pp. 1850200
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Metaxas
Keyword(s):  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Decay Rate ◽  
De Sitter Space ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Tunneling Rate ◽  
Cosmological Horizon ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Vacuum Decay ◽  
Background Space

Because of the presence of a cosmological horizon, the dilute instanton gas approximation used for the derivation of the Coleman–De Luccia tunneling rate in de Sitter space–time receives additional contributions due to the finite instanton separation. Here, I calculate the first corrections to the vacuum decay rate that arise from this effect and depend on the parameters of the theory and the cosmological constant of the background space–time.

scholarly journals Systematics of type IIA moduli stabilisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Marchesano ◽  
David Prieto ◽  
Joan Quirant ◽  
Pramod Shukla
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Potential ◽  
Systematic Search ◽  
Stability Criteria ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Large Subset

Abstract We analyse the flux-induced scalar potential for type IIA orientifolds in the presence of p-form, geometric and non-geometric fluxes. Just like in the Calabi-Yau case, the potential presents a bilinear structure, with a factorised dependence on axions and saxions. This feature allows one to perform a systematic search for vacua, which we implement for the case of geometric backgrounds. Guided by stability criteria, we consider configurations with a particular on-shell F-term pattern, and show that no de Sitter extrema are allowed for them. We classify branches of supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric vacua, and argue that the latter are perturbatively stable for a large subset of them. Our solutions reproduce and generalise previous results in the literature, obtained either from the 4d or 10d viewpoint.

scholarly journals Massive Dirac quasinormal modes in Schwarzschild–de Sitter black holes: Anomalous decay rate and fine structure

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Almendra Aragón ◽  
Ramón Bécar ◽  
P. A. González ◽  
Yerko Vásquez
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Fine Structure ◽  
Decay Rate ◽  
Quasinormal Modes ◽  
De Sitter

scholarly journals ON VACUUM-ENERGY DECAY FROM PARTICLE PRODUCTION

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (25) ◽  
pp. 1250150 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. R. KLINKHAMER
Keyword(s):  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Particle Production ◽  
Energy Decay ◽  
Back Reaction ◽  
De Sitter Spacetime ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Consistent Description ◽  
Sitter Spacetime

A simplified (but consistent) description of particle-production back-reaction effects in de Sitter spacetime is given.

scholarly journals MEDIATION OF SUPERSYMMETRY BREAKING IN EXTRA DIMENSIONS

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (05) ◽  
pp. 297-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLAUDIO A. SCRUCCA
Keyword(s):  
Supersymmetry Breaking ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Extra Dimensions ◽  
Model Building ◽  
Realistic Model ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Classical Level ◽  
Gravitational Effects ◽  
Gravitational Fields

We review the mechanisms of supersymmetry breaking mediation that occur in sequestered models, where the visible and the hidden sectors are separated by an extra dimension and communicate only via gravitational interactions. By locality, soft breaking terms are forbidden at the classical level and reliably computable within an effective field theory approach at the quantum level. We present a self-contained discussion of these radiative gravitational effects and the resulting pattern of soft masses, and give an overview of realistic model building based on this setup. We consider both flat and warped extra dimensions, as well as the possibility that there be localized kinetic terms for the gravitational fields.

Dirac particle in electric field with confining scalar potential on (anti)-de Sitter background

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (34) ◽  
pp. 1850202 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Messai ◽  
B. Hamil ◽  
A. Hafdallah
Keyword(s):  
Energy Spectrum ◽  
Dirac Equation ◽  
Electric Field ◽  
Scalar Potential ◽  
Dirac Particle ◽  
Wave Functions ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Sitter Background ◽  
Position Representation

In this paper, we study the (1 + 1)-dimensional Dirac equation in the presence of electric field and scalar linear potentials on (anti)-de Sitter background. Using the position representation, the energy spectrum and the corresponding wave functions are exactly obtained.

scholarly journals Vacuum structure and gravitational bags produced by metric-independent space–time volume-form dynamics

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (22) ◽  
pp. 1550133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Guendelman ◽  
Emil Nissimov ◽  
Svetlana Pacheva
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Field ◽  
Scalar Potential ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Kinetic Term ◽  
Volume Form ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Field System ◽  
Riemannian Volume ◽  
A Charge ◽  
Nonlinear Gauge

We propose a new class of gravity-matter theories, describing [Formula: see text] gravity interacting with a nonstandard nonlinear gauge field system and a scalar “dilaton,” formulated in terms of two different non-Riemannian volume-forms (generally covariant integration measure densities) on the underlying space–time manifold, which are independent of the Riemannian metric. The nonlinear gauge field system contains a square-root [Formula: see text] of the standard Maxwell Lagrangian which is known to describe charge confinement in flat space–time. The initial new gravity-matter model is invariant under global Weyl-scale symmetry which undergoes a spontaneous breakdown upon integration of the non-Riemannian volume-form degrees of freedom. In the physical Einstein frame we obtain an effective matter-gauge-field Lagrangian of “k-essence” type with quadratic dependence on the scalar “dilaton” field kinetic term [Formula: see text], with a remarkable effective scalar potential possessing two infinitely large flat regions as well as with nontrivial effective gauge coupling constants running with the “dilaton” [Formula: see text]. Corresponding to each of the two flat regions we find “vacuum” configurations of the following types: (i) [Formula: see text] and a nonzero gauge field vacuum [Formula: see text], which corresponds to a charge confining phase; (ii) [Formula: see text] (“kinetic vacuum”) and ordinary gauge field vacuum [Formula: see text] which supports confinement-free charge dynamics. In one of the flat regions of the effective scalar potential we also find: (iii) [Formula: see text] (“kinetic vacuum”) and a nonzero gauge field vacuum [Formula: see text], which again corresponds to a charge confining phase. In all three cases, the space–time metric is de Sitter or Schwarzschild–de Sitter. Both “kinetic vacuums” (ii) and (iii) can exist only within a finite-volume space region below a de Sitter horizon. Extension to the whole space requires matching the latter with the exterior region with a nonstandard Reissner–Nordström–de Sitter geometry carrying an additional constant radial background electric field. As a result, we obtain two classes of gravitational bag-like configurations with properties, which on one hand partially parallel some of the properties of the solitonic “constituent quark” model and, on the other hand, partially mimic some of the properties of MIT bags in QCD phenomenology.

scholarly journals Decay of solutions of the wave equation in expanding cosmological spacetimes

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 35-58
Author(s):  
João L. Costa ◽  
José Natário ◽  
Pedro F. C. Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Wave Equation ◽  
Initial Data ◽  
Decay Rate ◽  
Time Derivative ◽  
Iteration Scheme ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Accelerated Expansion ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Decay Of Solutions ◽  
Partial Energy

We study the decay of solutions of the wave equation in some expanding cosmological spacetimes, namely flat Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) models and the cosmological region of the Reissner–Nordström–de Sitter (RNdS) solution. By introducing a partial energy and using an iteration scheme, we find that, for initial data with finite higher order energies, the decay rate of the time derivative is faster than previously existing estimates. For models undergoing accelerated expansion, our decay rate appears to be (almost) sharp.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document