HE Seminar
Speaker: Alex Dahlen (Princeton)
Title: The Fastest Decay in the Landscape
Host: Nemanja
Room: 416
Abstract:Theories with extra dimensions naturally give rise to a large landscape of vacua stabilized by flux. I will show that the fastest decay is a giant leap to a wildly distant minimum, in which many different fluxes discharge at once. Indeed, the fastest decay is frequently the giantest leap of all, which discharges all the flux and begets a bubble of nothing. Finally, I will discuss how these giant leaps are mediated by the nucleation of "monkey branes" which wrap the extra dimensions.
