Journal of High Energy Physics (Jan 2020)

Vacuum decays around spinning black holes

  • Naritaka Oshita,
  • Kazushige Ueda,
  • Masahide Yamaguchi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2020)015
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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Abstract We investigate a vacuum decay around a spinning seed black hole by using the Israel junction condition and conclude that the spin of black hole would suppress a vacuum decay rate compared to that for a non-spinning case, provided that the surface of vacuum bubble has its ellipsoidal shape characterized by the Kerr geometry. We also find out that in the existence of a near-extremal black hole, a false vacuum state can be more stabilized than the case of the Coleman-de Luccia solution. A few necessary assumptions to carry the calculations are discussed.

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