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Oscillons in Scalar Field Theories: Applications in Higher Dimensions and Inflation

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The basic properties of oscillons -- localized, long-lived, time-dependent scalar field configurations -- are briefly reviewed, including recent results demonstrating how their existence depends on the dimensionality of spacetime. Their role on the dynamics of phase transitions is discussed, and it is shown that oscillons may greatly accelerate the decay of metastable vacuum states. This mechanism for vacuum decay -- resonant nucleation -- is then applied to cosmological inflation. A new inflationary model is proposed which terminates with fast bubble nucleation.

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  • Self-resonance preheating in deformed attractor models: oscillon formation and evolution astro-ph.CO · 2026-02-08 · unverdicted · none · ref 71 · internal anchor

    Deformed alpha-attractor T-models with a Gaussian feature near the minimum yield more smaller shorter-lived oscillons during self-resonance preheating, suppressing energy in oscillons and altering the high-frequency gravitational wave tail while leaving low frequencies unchanged.