Pith. sign in

REVIEW 1 cited by

Exact Tunneling Solutions in Multi-Field Potentials

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 2312.12360 v1 pith:ZKMGCUED submitted 2023-12-19 hep-th gr-qchep-ph

classification hep-thgr-qchep-ph
keywords decayexactpotentialssolutionstunnelingvacuumanalyticfields
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal
0 comments
read the original abstract

The tunneling potential formalism makes it easy to construct exact solutions to the vacuum decay problem in potentials with multiple fields. While some exact solutions for single-field decays were known, we present the first nontrivial analytic examples with two and three scalar fields, and show how the method can be generalized to include gravitational corrections. Our results illuminate some analytic properties of the tunneling potential functions and can have a number of uses, among others: to serve as simple approximations to realistic potentials; to learn about parametric dependencies of decay rates; to check conjectures on vacuum decay; as benchmarks for multi-field numerical codes; or to study holographic interpretations of vacuum decay.

Discussion (0). Continue with ORCID to comment.

Forward citations

Cited by 1 Pith paper

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score. Full citation record

  1. An Exploration of Vacuum-Decay Valleys

    hep-th 2025-06 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Single-field potentials can exhibit 2n+1 distinct vacuum-decay bounces, including antibounces that standard overshoot/undershoot algorithms miss, connected by families of pseudo-bounces.

Pith tools