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Bubbles of Nothing and the Fastest Decay in the Landscape

Brown, Adam R., Dahlen, Alex

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The rate and manner of vacuum decay are calculated in an explicit flux compactification, including all thick-wall and gravitational effects.

For landscapes built of many units of a single flux, the fastest decay is usually to discharge just one unit.
By contrast, for landscapes built of a single unit each of many different fluxes, the fastest decay is usually to discharge all the flux at once, which destabilizes the radion and begets a bubble of nothing.
By constructing the bubble of nothing as the limit in which ever more flux is removed, we gain new insight into the bubble's appearance.

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