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On Vacuum Transitions and the String Landscape

Fernando Quevedo
Cambridge and ICTP

Abstract:

Motivated by the string theory landscape we revisit vacuum transitions in gravitational EFTs following the Hamiltonian formalism and compare with the standard Euclidean approach. Several aspects are emphasised such as up-tunneling transitions, including Minkowski to de Sitter, and the curvature of space after tunnelling.