Conformal Universe as false vacuum decay [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05897


We point out that the (pseudo-)conformal Universe scenario may be realized as decay of conformally invariant, metastable vacuum, which proceeds via spontaneous nucleation and subsequent growth of a bubble of a putative new phase. We study perturbations about the bubble and show that their leading late-time properties coincide with those inherent in the original models with homogeneously rolling backgrounds. In particular, the perturbations of a spectator dimension-zero field have flat power spectrum.

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M. Libanov and V. Rubakov
Mon, 23 Feb 15
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Comments: 21 pages, 1 figure