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On thermal false vacuum decay around black holes

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In flat space and at finite temperature, there are two regimes of false vacuum decay in quantum field theory. At low temperature, the decay proceeds through thermally-assisted tunneling described by periodic Euclidean solutions -- bounces -- with non-trivial time dependence. On the other hand, at high temperature the bounces are time-independent and describe thermal jumps of the field over the potential barrier. We argue that only solutions of the second type are relevant for false vacuum decay catalyzed by a black hole in equilibrium with thermal bath. The argument applies to a wide class of spherical black holes, including $d$-dimensional AdS/dS-Schwarzschild black holes and Reissner-Nordström black holes sufficiently far from criticality. It does not rely on the thin-wall approximation and applies to multi-field scalar theories.

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hal-03836929 , version 1 (02-11-2022)

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Vadim Briaud, Andrey Shkerin, Sergey Sibiryakov. On thermal false vacuum decay around black holes. Physical Review D, 2022, 106 (12), pp.125001. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.106.125001⟩. ⟨hal-03836929⟩
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