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New bounce solutions and vacuum tunneling in de Sitter spacetime

Erick J. Weinberg

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0512332

Abstract

I describe a class of oscillating bounce solutions to the Euclidean field equations for gravity coupled to a scalar field theory with multiple vacua. I discuss their implications for vacuum tunneling transitions and for elucidating the thermal nature of de Sitter spacetime.

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