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29 March 2024
 
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Does the Hawking-Moss bounce calculate a decay rate?
Erick J. Weinberg ;
Date 14 Dec 2006
AbstractThe conventional interpretation of the Hawking-Moss (HM) solution implies a transition rate between vacua that depends only on the values of the potential in the initial vacuum and at the top of a potential barrier, leading to the implausible conclusion that transitions to distant vacua can be as likely as those to a nearby one. I analyze this issue using a nongravitational example with analogous properties. I show that the HM bounce does not give a reliable rate calculation, but is instead related to the probability of finding a quasistable configuration at a local potential maximum.
Source arXiv, hep-th/0612146
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