29 Jun-3 Jul 2026 Paris (France)
Avoiding a multiversal apocalypse from Coleman-De-Luccia transitions
Thibaut Coudarchet  1, *, @  , Ben Freivogel  2  , Björn Hassfeld  3  , Arthur Hebecker  1  
1 : Heidelberg University  -  Website
P.O. Box 105760, Grabengasse 1, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, 69047 -  Germany
2 : Institute of Theoretical Physics  (ITFA)
Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica Valckenierstraat, 65 1018 XE Amsterdam -  Netherlands
3 : University of Wisconsin-Madison  -  Website
1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1390, USA -  United States
* : Corresponding author

In this talk I will explain difficulties invovled in interpreting the Lorentzian emergence of spacetimes from Coleman-De-Luccia (CDL) instantons. In particular, when these transitions are of Type B, a situation ubiquitous in the de Sitter string theory landscape, it seems difficult to relate the instanton geometry to a genuine late-time transition from a parametrically large parent space to a small new de Sitter. Even more concerning is the known instability of these domain walls in the stringy landscape, which, under a naive interpretation of the instanton, would lead to the destruction of the global multiverse. I will thus describe a different approach, focused on the nucleation of small bubbles at late-times in an Hamiltonian formalism. I will show how to compute decay rates in this approach, which surprisingly reproduce the CDL results despite relying on a very different derivation and interpretation of how the new spacetime emerges.



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