(Higgs) vacuum decay during inflation

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2017)058zbMath1380.83210arXiv1706.00792OpenAlexW2953114765MaRDI QIDQ1696268

Aris Joti, Dimitris Loupas, Alberto Salvio, Aris Katsis, Alessandro Strumia, Nikolaos Tetradis, Alfredo Urbano

Publication date: 14 February 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00792

zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupclassical theories of gravitysolitons monopoles and instantonsHiggs physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Soliton equations (35Q51) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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