PIRSA:11070020

A critique of Coleman - De Luccia

APA

(2011). A critique of Coleman - De Luccia. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/11070020

MLA

A critique of Coleman - De Luccia. Perimeter Institute, Jul. 13, 2011, https://pirsa.org/11070020

BibTex

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:11070020,
            doi = {10.48660/11070020},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/11070020},
            author = {},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {A critique of Coleman - De Luccia},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2011},
            month = {jul},
            note = {PIRSA:11070020 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }
          

Abstract

In many respects, de Sitter space behaves like a system at finite temperature in finite volume. I will extend this to include the lack of first-order phase transitions. This rules out exponential decay in the de Sitter landscape, which changes the global structure in a significant way.