Finite time vacuum survival amplitude and vacuum energy decay
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The problem of the vacuum energy decay is studied for both signs of the cosmological constant, through the analysis of the vacuum survival amplitude, defined in terms of the conformal time, z, by Aðz; z0Þ hvac zjvac z0i. Transition amplitudes are computed for finite time span, Z z0 z, and their late time behavior (directly related to the putative decay width of the state), and the transients are discussed up to first order in the coupling constant, .
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