Nucleation and evolution of false vacuum bubbles in scalar-tensor gravity

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In this presentation, we discuss the nucleation and subsequent evolution of false vacuum bubbles in the scalar-tensor gravity.

• First, we transform the scalar-tensor type theory of gravity to the standard Brans-Dicke type.
• Second, we transform the Brans-Dicke type theory from the Jordan frame to the Einstein frame.
• For a certain potential, a true vacuum bubble in the Einstein frame can be transformed to a false vacuum bubble in the Jordan frame by a conformal transformation.