PIRSA:10120041

The Fastest Decay in the Landscape

Dahlen, A. (2010). The Fastest Decay in the Landscape. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/10120041

Dahlen, Alex. The Fastest Decay in the Landscape. Perimeter Institute, Dec. 09, 2010, https://pirsa.org/10120041 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:10120041,
            doi = {10.48660/10120041},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/10120041},
            author = {Dahlen, Alex},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {The Fastest Decay in the Landscape},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2010},
            month = {dec},
            note = {PIRSA:10120041 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Alex Dahlen Princeton University

Talk number PIRSA:10120041
DOI 10.48660/10120041
Collection
Talk Type Scientific Series
Subject

Abstract

Theories with extra dimensions naturally give rise to a large landscape of vacua stabilized by flux. I will show that the fastest decay is a giant leap to a wildly distant minimum, in which many different fluxes discharge at once. Indeed, the fastest decay is frequently the giantest leap of all, where all the fluxes discharge at once, which destabilizes the extra dimensions and begets a bubble of nothing. Finally, I will discuss how these giant leaps are mediated by the nucleation of "monkey branes" that wrap the extra dimensions.