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arxiv 2305.06774 v1 pith:4D6IWOM3 submitted 2023-05-11 hep-th gr-qchep-ph

Thick Wall from Thin Walls

classification hep-th gr-qchep-ph
keywords actionshellsthintunnelingactionsassignedbounceconcentric
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An Euclidean bounce describing vacuum decay can be considered as an infinite stack of concentric thin shells to which a thin-wall action can be assigned. The integral over all shells produces then a tunneling action that is precisely the action functional in field space of the so-called tunneling potential formalism. This procedure, which works also when gravity is included, gives the simplest derivation of such actions.

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