The false vacuum bubble : - formation and evolution -

1. HaengDang Symposium 2007 - Recent Studies in Astro-Particle Physics - Nov. 30.(Fri.) 2007 The false vacuum bubble : - formation and evolution - Wonwoo Lee Sogang University in collaboration with Bum-Hoon Lee, Chul H. Lee, Siyong Nam, and Chanyong Park Based on PRD74, 123520 (2006), PRD75, 103506 (2007), arXiv:0710.4599 [hep-th]

2. The plan of this talk • Motivations, 2. False vacuum bubble nucleation due to a nonminimally coupled scalar field 1) Numerical calculation 2) Thin-wall approximation • The dynamics of a false vacuum bubble : the junction equations 4. Summary and discussions

3. 1. Motivations -I What is the origin of our universe? 1) Is our universe created from nothing? 2) Is our universe created from something? 3) Can the universe create itself?

4. 1. Motivations -II (1) What did the spacetime look like in the very early universe? - Wheeler’s spacetime foam structure - The cosmological constant as a dynamical variable Can we obtain the mechanism for the nucleation of a false vacuum bubble? Can a false vacuum bubble expand within the true vacuum background? (2) The idea of the string theory landscape has a vast number of metastable vacua. Which mechanism worked to select our universe in this landscape? Can we be in the vacuum with positive cosmological constant ? (through an alternative way to KKLT, for example)

5. 2. The Einstein theory of gravity with a nonminimally coupled scalar field Vacuum-to-vacuum phase transition rate Action Einstein equations

6. curvature scalarPotentialRotationally invariant Euclidean metric : O(4)-symmetryThe Euclidean field equationsboundary conditions

7. Our main idea(during the phase transition)

8. (Case 1) from de Sitter to de Sitter 1) Numerical calculation

10. (Case 2) from flat to de Sitter

12. (Case 3) from anti-de Sitter to de Sitter

14. (Case 4) from anti-de Sitter to flat

16. (Case 5) from anti-de Sitter to anti-de Sitter

19. 2)Thin-wall approximation B is the difference In this approximation Outside the wall

20. In the wallwhereinside the wall

21. (a) false vacuum bubble nucleationif

22. The coefficient B(b) true vacuum bubble nucleation

23. The coefficient Bif (by S. Parke) where

24. 3. The dynamics of a false vacuum bubble : the junction equations Two types related to this formalism (1) Boundary surface (2) Surface layer In this case it is related to the discontinuity of the extrinsic curvature of the surface. We consider thin-wall partitions bulk spacetime into two distinct manifolds and with boundaries and , respectively. To obtain the single glued manifold we demand that the boundaries are identified as follows:

25. We consider the action where In this framework, junction condition becomes or where , a effective negative tension of the wall There are parameter regions including that both and are positive in all ranges of

26. After squaring twice, the equation turns out to be where the effective potential is with

28. (1) M = 0 DS – DS

29. DS – FLAT

30. DS – ADS

31. (2) M > 0 DS – SDS

32. DS – S

33. DS – SADS

34. 4. Summary and Discussions • The false vacuum bubble can be nucleated within the true vacuum • background with a nonminimally coupled scalar field • expect the phenomenon be possible in many other theories • of gravity with similar terms. • A false vacuum bubble with minimal coupling, without singularity • in their past, can expand within the true vacuum background • with nonminimal coupling. • An expanding false vacuum bubble is not inside the horizon of • a black hole from outside observer’s point of view. • Can it be a model for the accelerating expanding universe?

35. Thank you for your attention!