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Black hole pair creation in de Sitter space: a complete one-loop analysis

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arxiv hep-th/0003081 v2 pith:B7L33RSQ submitted 2000-03-10 hep-th gr-qc

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We present an exact one-loop calculation of the tunneling process in Euclidean quantum gravity describing creation of black hole pairs in a de Sitter universe. Such processes are mediated by $S^2\times S^2$ gravitational instantons giving an imaginary contribution to the partition function. The required energy is provided by the expansion of the universe. We utilize the thermal properties of de Sitter space to describe the process as the decay of a metastable thermal state. Within the Euclidean path integral approach to gravity, we explicitly determine the spectra of the fluctuation operators, exactly calculate the one-loop fluctuation determinants in the $\zeta$-function regularization scheme, and check the agreement with the expected scaling behaviour. Our results show a constant volume density of created black holes at late times, and a very strong suppression of the nucleation rate for small values of $\Lambda$.

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    Horizon edge mode spectra in de Sitter and Nariai spacetimes exhibit universal shift symmetries that produce novel symmetry breaking in one-loop partition functions.

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  3. Gravitons on Nariai Edges

    hep-th 2025-06 unverdicted novelty 6.0 of 10

    The one-loop graviton path integral on S² × S^{d-1} factorizes into a bulk thermal graviton gas partition function in Nariai geometry and an edge contribution from shift-symmetric fields on S^{d-1}.

  4. De Sitter Horizon Edge Partition Functions

    hep-th 2025-01 unverdicted novelty 5.0 of 10

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  5. Quasinormal bulk-edge characters of gravitons in Nariai geometry

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