Published December 15, 1992 | Version v1
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Tunneling in the presence of gravity

Creators

  • 1. Physics Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244-1130 (United States)

Description

We study the tunneling process in the presence of gravity. By perturbation on both the dynamical and background gravitational fields in the action, we are able to derive the tunneling rate from first principles. Our result is in agreement with the conventional result

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
46
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 5321-5330.
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
24028042
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; EUCLIDEAN SPACE; GAUGE INVARIANCE; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; METRICS; PERTURBATION THEORY; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SCALAR FIELDS; TUNNEL EFFECT; VACUUM STATES; WKB APPROXIMATION
Descriptors DEC
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RIEMANN SPACE; SPACE