Abstract
We consider O(3)-invariant tunneling processes which induce false-vacuum decay in general relativity. We find that in the presence of a black hole in a false vacuum the process of spontaneous nucleation of a bubble around a black hole (with the true phase in between the bubble shell and the black-hole surface) proceeds at a tremendously faster rate than that of an empty O(4)-invariant true phase bubble provided the black-hole mass does not exceed . There we also find the spontaneous creation of black holes during first-order vacuum-vacuum phase transitions.
- Received 10 December 1990
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.43.R3112
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