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In this work, gravitational phase transition emerging from anti de-Sitter (AdS) to de-Sitter (dS) vacua in Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet-massive gravity (EGBMG) is considered. We determine the location of thermalon (a static bubble solution in Euclidean space) which exists in casually connected two regions of the spacetime. The thermalon plays a major role in gravitational phase transition by inducing the decay of the negative effective cosmological constant to the positive one due to the higher-order gravity effects. The thermodynamics phase space of the Hawking temperature and free energy is investigated in details. We find that the free energy of the thermalon is always negative at the maximum of Hawking temperature for all possible values of the Gauss–Bonnet couplings. This means that the phase transition mediated by thermalon from AdS to dS asymptotics is inevitable according to the presence of the massive gravity. More importantly, the parameters of the massive gravity behave similarly to the order parameters in the phase transition instead of the Gauss–Bonnet coupling.
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1 Introduction
The Cosmological Constant (CC) problem has been a major challenge in field theory and cosmology for several decades. On the one hand, the CC is interpreted as the vacuum energy density and the prediction of the standard quantum field theory calculation gives the theoretical result up to the Planck scale bigger than the observational value about 120 order of magnitudes [1]. This contradiction poses a serious problem and remains as the unsolved problem in high energy physics. On the other hand, the CC can be used to describe the accelerating expansion of the universe at the present time or the dark energy problem [2,3,4]. Nowadays, the interpretation of the CC as dark energy becomes the standard model of cosmology known as the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) and the LCDM model can describe most of the cosmological data. However, according to the CC problem, we need the correct theory or better solution for explaining the fundamental mechanism of the CC problem. This leads to a number of the theoretical models proposed to solve the smallness of observed values of the CC. In particular, an approach from the Beyond Standard Model (BSM) of particle physics is received a lot of attention, for instances, supersymmetric model, large extra dimension approach of CC, string landscape and etc. See Refs. [5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13] for reviews on this subject. One of interesting approach for describing the smallness of the CC value is the gravitational phase transition. The phase transition arises from the bubble nucleation of the true vacuum in the false vacuum spacetime when the bubble pops up and expands until filling up the whole spacetime. This means that the CC of the false vacuum is changed to the new value of the CC according to new vacuum energy of the true vacuum. The mechanism of this gravitational phase transition is originally proposed by Refs. [14, 15]. The phase transition for Einstein gravity coupled to the 3-form fields is studied and the results revealed that the CC can be dynamically changed into several values from the infinite decay of the false vacuum and this leads to an alternative approach to describe the CC problem [16, 17]. More interestingly, Ref. [18] has used the same gravitational setting but hosting the black hole inside the bubble. Then a thermalon, the instanton solution of the thermal trigger for the bubble nucleation, plays the role as a mediator of the phase transition. Under this consideration, the bubble with the three-form charge induces the decay of the dS false vacuum into another smaller dS true vacuum. In order to thermally trigger the phase transition, one needs the source of the exotic matter fields with negative pressure. Alternatively, Refs. [19, 20] have proposed new mechanism analogous to the thermalon mediated the phase transition by introducing the higher order gravity into the system. There are two solution branches of the higher order gravity corresponding to negatively and positively effective cosmological constants (AdS and dS spacetime, respectively). Initially, the false vacuum is displayed by the AdS spacetime. The true vacuum is represented by the dS geometry emerged from the creation of bubble with black hole inside. The bubble then expands very rapidly until it reaches the cosmological horizon. This changes the values of the effective CC from negative to positive values due to the thermalon mediated AdS to dS phase transition without inclusion of any matter fields coupled to the gravity. This is the salient feature of this type of gravitational phase transition.
On the other hand, the existence of the graviton mass provides an interesting results in either quantum theory of gravity and cosmology (see [21, 22] for reviews). A consideration of the graviton mass has been received attentions for several decades [23]. In particular, a so-called dRGT massive gravity [24] becomes a well defined theory of massive gravity. Several problems of the graviton mass is solved by using the dRGT massive gravity approach, for instances, redundancy of the spin d.o.f. [25], vDVZ discontinuous [26, 27], Vainshtein screening [28] and the unstable ghost modes of the massive gravity [29]. In addition, massive gravity and its extensions can be used to describe dark energy [30,31,32,33]. Moreover, the dRGT massive gravity is also extensively studied in various aspects, for examples, black hole solution and its thermodynamics properties [34], quasinormal modes [35], dark matter [36], gravitational lensing [37] and wormholes [38].
In this work, we will utilize the thermalon formalism with the higher order gravity to study the AdS to dS phase transition by including the effect of the massive gravity in five dimensional spacetime. The main motivation of this work is that the Gauss–Bonnet term is non-trivial in the spacetime dimension higher than four [39] and it has been widely used in brane cosmology [40,41,42,43,44,45]. Interestingly, one can consider the effects of the graviton mass since the massive graviton is well defined in the large extra dimension of the brane cosmology paradigm [46, 47]. Therefore, it is worth exploring the gravitational phase transition with the massive gravity in five dimensional spacetime. Charged black holes in Gauss–Bonnet-massive gravity and their thermodynamic properties is explored in [48]. Phase transition of charged black hole in Gauss–Bonnet-massive gravity coupled with Yang-Mills field is investigated in [49]. Moreover, the Gauss–Bonnet gravity in five dimension is employed to study the thermalon mediated AdS to dS phase transition in various aspects, e.g., study the critical point of the phase transition in the vacuum solution [50], phase transition in black hole chemistry picture [51] and inclusions of Maxwell [52] and Kalb-Ramond [53] fields.
We will organize the paper as follows. The gravitational action of the higher order gravity with the massive gravity is set up and the corresponding branch solutions are given in Sect. 2. The junction condition between two regions of AdS and dS vacua is derived and the dynamics of bubble nucleation is analyzed in Sect. 3. In Sect. 4, the gravitational phase transition in the thermodynamics phase space is studied in details. Finally, we close the paper with the conclusion in the Sect. 5.
2 The Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet with the presence of the massive gravity
In this section, we will set up the system of the AdS to dS gravitational phase transition via the thermalon mediation. The five dimensional action of Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet-massive gravity (EGBMG) with a presence of the bare CC (\(\Lambda \)) is given by
where R is Ricci scalar, \(\alpha \) is the Gauss–Bonnet coupling constant carrying the mass dimension \(-2\) and m can be interpreted as graviton mass. We have set \(16\pi G_5 = 1\) with \(G_5\) is Newton constant in five dimensions through out this work. The Gauss–Bonnet term takes a form
The graviton potential \({\mathcal {U}}\) is a function of metric tensor (g) and Stückelberg field \((\phi ^a)\). It is defined by
where \(c_i\) are constants and
The matrix \(K^{\mu }_{\nu } = \delta ^{\mu }_{\nu } - \sqrt{g^{\mu \sigma }f_{ab}\partial _{\sigma }\phi ^a\partial _{\nu }\phi ^b}\), \([{\mathcal {K}}]={\mathcal {K}}^{\mu }_{\mu }\) and \([{\mathcal {K}}^n]=({\mathcal {K}}^n)^{\mu }_{\mu }\), where \(f_{ab}=diag(0,0,\frac{c^2}{1-k\rho ^2},c^2\rho ^2,c^2\rho ^2\sin ^2\theta )\) is called fiducial metric with constants c and k. In addition, the Stückelberg fields in the unitary gauge \(\phi ^a=x^{b}\delta ^{a}_{b}\) is used in the dRGT massive gravity to eliminate unphysical spin d.o.f., i.e., Boulware–Deser ghost [24]. Therefore, the extra degrees of freedom in the dRGT massive gravity theory does not play the role in the obtained results of the present work. Varying the action (1) with respect to \(g^{\mu \nu }\) yields Einstein field equations,
The effective energy–momentum tensors, \(T_{\mu \nu }^{GB}\) and \(T_{\mu \nu }^{MG}\) are defined by
The static spherically symmetric with constant of spatial curvature k is given by
The solutions of the metric tensor, f(r) in Eq. (7) is obtained by solving Einstein field equations (5). It reads
Here \(m_0\) is integration constant. If we set graviton mass to zero, \(m=0\), this solution can be compared with those found in [50,51,52,53,54,55,56]. Thus, it is more convenient to define the following quantities
where L is the AdS or dS length scale and \(\uplambda \) is the dimensionless Gauss–Bonnet coupling. The constant \({\mathcal {M}}\) associates to the black hole mass M in five dimensional spacetime via [19]
We also define shorted-hand notation for the massive graviton term as
Therefore, the metric describing AdS outer (\(+\)) and dS inner (−) spacetime are written by
Alternatively, the solution of EGBMG can be obtained by introducing the following polynomials function
Thus the function g can be explicitly written as
or equivalently,
We will use two branches of solution Eq. (12) of the EGBMG theory for studying the gravitational phase transition in the next section.
3 Junction condition and bubble dynamics
In this section, we will define the junction condition connecting two region (AdS and dS as outside and inside, respectively) of the spacetimes to study the bubble dynamics. To ensure the continuity between the two spacetimes, the so-called junction conditions must be satisfied. The junction condition of EGBMG is defined in terms of co-moving time component of the canonical momenta (\(\Pi \)) (see detail derivation in Refs. [20, 50, 52])
where \(H=\frac{k+{\dot{a}}^2}{a^2}\). Here \(a\equiv a(\tau )\) is a scaled factor defined on the induced line elements of the timelike hypersurface (\(\Sigma \)). We remark that, at the boundaries outer AdS and inner dS spacetimes, the metric of hypersurface \(\Sigma \) takes the similar form (see more details in [52]). The derivative with respect to co-moving time coordinate \(\tau \) will be denoted by \({\dot{a}}=\frac{da}{d\tau }\).
The junction condition can be obtained from
where this condition is evaluated at the boundaries between two manifolds (outer and inner spacetimes). By substituting Eq. (16) into the above condition, we obtain
where
The junction condition can be expressed in term of kinetic and effective potential as
In order to obtain above equation, we have used the imaginary time, i.e., \(\tau \rightarrow i\tau _E\) in the derivative leading to \((da/d\tau )^2 \rightarrow -(da/d\tau _E)^{2}\). The effective potential can be shown explicitly
where we have used the following notation
The derivative of effective potential with respect to a is determined by
The effective potential in Eq. (21) and its derivative in Eq. (23) are useful to explain the dynamics of the bubble nucleation and the discussion will be given later. More importantly, we shall assume the continuity of gravity mass by setting
These continuities greatly simplify the expression of effective potential. Imposing \(V(a_{*})=V'(a_{*})=0\), one can explicitly determined \({\mathcal {M}}_{\pm }\) at the thermalon location, \(a_{*}\) as
where \(g^{*}_{\pm }=g_{\pm }(a_{*})\). From definition of the \(\Upsilon \) in Eq. (13), we obtain
where the coefficients \(C_{1,2}\) are then determined as
Thus we can solve these equations simultaneously which yield
We note that the \(g_\pm ^*\) correspond to AdS and dS geometries and the condition \(g_+^*\ne g_-^*\) is required since we study the phase transition between those spacetimes. Therefore by using Eqs. (27, 28), the \(g^{*}_{\pm }\) can be expressed in terms of \(k,\uplambda ,L^2,\gamma _a,\gamma _b\) and \(\gamma _c\). After deriving all relevant equations, we are ready to analyze the bubble dynamics. From now on, the spherical bubble, \(k=1\) will be studied throughout this work. In Fig. 1, we display an example of behavior of effective potential against a. In this figure, we fix \(\gamma _a=\gamma _b=\gamma _c\). We vary \(\gamma _i\) while keep other parameters fixed in the left figure. The right figure shows the effective potential with \(\uplambda \) is varied. Despite having various parameters, throughout this work, we shall particularly focus on the set of parameter which yield \({\mathcal {M}}^*_{\pm }\) are real positive value. As the results, the Fig. 1 clearly shows that the effective potential has the maximum value at the given thermalon position, \(a_*= 1\). This means that the thermalon is in the unstable mode and ready to roll down from the top of the effective potential. Consequently, the bubble, representing dS space with true vacuum can expand and leading to the AdS to dS phase transition eventually. In Fig. 2, parameter spaces where \({\mathcal {M}}^*_{\pm }>0\) are illustrated. In each plots, we fix bubble location and AdS (dS) length scale to be unity. The GB coupling constant is chosen to be 0.1. With given \(\gamma _c\), allowed value of \(\gamma _a,\gamma _b\) can be obtained. The shaded regions increase as \(\gamma _c\). We should emphasize that the plots in Fig. 2 are only partially displayed for demonstration purpose. From our numerical investigation, the shaded regions can be extended rightward and upward.
Effective potential plotted as function of a for \(a_{*}=1\), \(L=1\), \(k=1\): left fixed \(\uplambda =0.015\) and \(\gamma _i=\) 0, 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10 (red, green, blue, black, magenta), right fixed \(\gamma _i=5\) and \(\uplambda =\) 0.001, 0.003, 0.005, 0.007, 0.01 (red, green, blue, black, magenta), where \(i=\) {a, b, c}
The gravitational phase transition will generally occur from higher vacuum energy density (positive value, dS) to the lower one (negative value, AdS). However, the phase transition from the AdS vacua could also change toward the dS one [18,19,20]. In our case, according to Eq. (12), we can define the effective CC for AdS and dS spacetimes in \({\mathcal {M}} \rightarrow 0\) and \(\gamma _{a,b,c} \rightarrow 0\) limit. We obtain
We remark that the transition of the effective CC \(\Lambda _+\) (AdS) and \(\Lambda _-\) (dS) in Eq. (30) can happen. As mentioned earlier, the spherical bubble divides the spacetime into two regions, the outer part having asymptote AdS with effective cosmological constant \(\Lambda _+\); while, the inner part is dS spacetime denoted by \(\Lambda _-\). These solutions consist of a spherically symmetric hypersurface separating regions with different vacua and the existence of the solutions are studied in [57, 58]. In addition, the bubble nucleation mechanism is considered as a process in which an instanton tunelling between vacua \(\Lambda _+ \rightarrow \Lambda _-\) [59]. Once the bubble is formed, it will become unstable and start expanding until it reaches the asymptotic AdS outer spacetime. Thus the asymptotic structure of spacetime is replaced by the dS geometry. In general, the bubble can be either expanded or collapsed after rolling down from the effective potential Eq. (21). However, we are interested only the expanding bubble case which can change the values of the effective CC from the false vacuum AdS space to the true vacuum dS space asymptotically. Therefore, a consideration of the collapsing bubble case is neglected in this study. One can see Ref. [20] for more detail discussions of the collapsing bubble that leads to violation of the cosmic censorship hypothesis.
We close this section by providing a brief discussion on how we ensure that the bubble will expand to infinity reaching the cosmic horizon and changing the former effective CC, \(\Lambda _+\) to the new value, \(\Lambda _-\) a whole spacetime. By considering the definitions of the canonical momenta of the AdS (outside) and dS (inside) spaces and the junction condition in (16) and (17), respectively, we find
Here the above expression is obtained up to the first order expansion of the 1/H. We can see explicitly that \(H\equiv {\dot{a}}/a\) (speed of the bubble expansion) approaches to \(\infty \) when \(a \rightarrow \infty \). This corresponds to the the bubble expansion to infinity at the finite time.
4 Gravitational phase transition
This section presents a central result of this work on the AdS to dS phase transition mediated by thermalon in EGBMG theory. This section is divided into two parts. First, we discuss how we obtain physically corrected thermalon configuration. Second, from a set of parameter in EGBMG which allowed thermalon configuration, we analyse thermodynamic phase space of the gravitational phase transition.
4.1 Thermalon configurations, horizons and Nariai bound
Since we need to ensure that the thermalon’s location \(a_{*}\) lies in the casual connected region outside the black hole. Thus, it is convenient to firstly determine the casual structure of the metric Eq. (8). The horizon’s location can be obtained by imposing \(f_-(r_{H})=0\). This yields quartic equation
The roots of this equation can be interpreted as the dS branch (inner spacetime) horizon. In general, there will be four possible roots. However, only real positive roots are physically relevant. An example plot of metric function f is illustrated in Fig. 3. In these plots, the bubble position is always fixed to unity i.e., \(a_{*}=1\). Two roots of \(f_-\) correspond to event horizon (\(r_H\)) and cosmological horizon (\(r_C\)). We observe that as \(\gamma _a,\gamma _b\) increases the metric function also increases. In addition, increasing in \(\gamma _a,\gamma _b\) does not significantly alter the location of the event horizon while the cosmological horizon is shifted to a larger value. Moreover as we expect, the radius of cosmological horizon becomes larger as L is increased.
Plot of \(f_-\) when \(a_{*}=1,k=1\) Red: \(L=1,\uplambda =0.2,\gamma _c=1\) (dashed) \(\gamma _a=0,\gamma _b=0\) (solid) \(\gamma _a=0.6,\gamma _b=0.5\) and Blue: \(L=3,\uplambda =0.015,\gamma _c=0.5\) (dashed) \(\gamma _a=0,\gamma _b=0\) (solid) \(\gamma _a=1.6,\gamma _b=0.8\). The subplot displays a close up behavior of metric function f
Equation (32) is in a standard form of quartic equation \(a r^4 + b r^3 + c r^2 + d r + e =0.\) The roots of this equation are given by
where we have defined the following parameters
Thus we can now plot the horizon radius as a function of thermalon’s location \(a_*\) and this is demonstrated in Fig. 4. To be physically relevant, we pay our attention only to the case where the thermalon is located within the casual region of inner spacetime i.e. \(r_H \le a_*\le r_C\). In practice, we fix the maximum value of bubble location at \(a_*= 1\) where the spacetime approaches the Narai limit \(r_H \sim r_C\). We remark that, throughout this work, we shall especially focus on the case where (1) both \({\mathcal {M}}^*_{\pm }\) are real positive. (2) The metric function Eq. (8) has at least two positive real roots. (3) The thermalon always stay between black hole’s event horizon and cosmological horizon. We need to ensure that these three conditions are met throughout our investigation.
Location of horizons as a function of \(a_{*}\) when \(k=1\), \(L=1\), \(\uplambda =0.2\), left: \(\gamma _a=-2.393,\gamma _b=2.197,\gamma _c=0\), middle: \(\gamma _a=-0.931\), \(\gamma _b=-0.035\), \(\gamma _c=1.5\), right: \(\gamma _a=0.532\), \(\gamma _b=-2.266\), \(\gamma _c=3\). The red, black and blue curved are event horizon, thermalon (bubble) location and cosmological horizon respectively
4.2 Thermodynamics of the AdS to dS phase transition mediated by thermalon
This subsection aims to investigate the gravitational AdS to dS phase transition in the thermodynamics phase space. We follow Refs. [19, 20, 50,51,52,53] for all formalisms in this study. The gravitational phase transition in this work is a generalization of the well known Hawking-Page (HP) phase transition [60] where at the critical temperature the thermal AdS space becomes unstable and then decays to the the AdS black hole with the lower free energy. We employ the generalized HP phase transition in this work. The decay mechanism proceeds via nucleation of the bubbles or the thermalon mediation where the initial false vacuum state is the thermal AdS. When it is unstable and decay into black hole inside the bubble of true vacuum dS space at the critical temperature. This phase transition is produced by the quantum tunneling or jumping over the wall of the quasi particle state in the Euclidean sector of the bubbles called the thermalon [18,19,20]. In other words, the thermalon effectively changes the branch of the false vacuum AdS solution to another true vacuum dS solution.
Taking this phase transition mechanism into account, one can calculate the thermodynamics properties of the thermalon in the same fashion as black hole thermodynamics are calculated. The Euclidean action of the thermalon, \({\mathcal {I}}_E\) has been derived in [19, 20] and it is given by
where \(\beta _+\), \({\mathcal {M}}_+\) and S are the inverse Hawking temperature, mass of the external observer in the asymptotic thermal AdS and the entropy of the dS black hole, respectively. The Gibbs free energy of the thermalon in the canonical ensemble is written by [20, 50, 61],
To obtain the Gibbs free energy of the thermalon, one can use the on-shell regularization method by subtracting the thermal AdS space background [20, 50, 51]. Superficially, the expression of the free energy in Eq. (37) might appear in a very simple form. In principle, however, the original total Euclidean action of the system consists of the actions from the inner dS (\(I_E^{(-)}\)), outer AdS (\(I_E^{(+)}\)) manifolds and the surface term \(I_E^{(\Sigma )}\)
where \(I_E^{(\pm )}\) contain all relevant parameters from the inner and outer geometries denoted by ± subscripts, for instance \({\mathcal {M}}_{\pm }\), \(\Lambda _{\pm }\) (see definitions in Eqs. (25) and (30), respectively), \(T_{\pm }\) (see definitions in Eqs. (39) and (41) below), and the model parameters such as GB-coupling, \(\uplambda \), dRGT massive gravity couplings, \(\gamma _{a,b,c}\), and etc. Noting that the parameters \({\mathcal {M}}_{\pm }\), \(\Lambda _{\pm }\) and \(T_{\pm }\) are written in terms of \(a_\star \) (thermalon radius), \(\uplambda \) (GB-coupling), L (dS/AdS radius), c, k and \(\gamma _{a,b,c}\) (dRGT theory-couplings). It has been discussed in Refs. [19, 20] by using the standard regularized subtraction of the path integral with the gravitational action in the Euclidean spacetime. Then, we finally obtain the resulting action of the thermodynamic phase transition in the Eqs. (36) and (37). More importantly, there are two competing phases in this system i.e., the thermal AdS (outside) and the thermalon hosting the black hole in the dS space (inside). Then, we will study the phase transition by comparing the Gibbs free energy of the thermalon to the thermal AdS one. In practice, we can set the Gibbs free energy of the thermal AdS space as zero (\(F_{\mathrm{AdS}} = 0\)) since \(F_{\mathrm{AdS}}\) has already considered as the background subtraction. The Hawking temperature of inner five dimensional dS black hole in EGBMG can be defined by [62]
where
Moreover, the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy is given by [62]
The Hawking temperature of outer AdS spacetime is computed by
We plot \(T_+\) and F as a function of the thermalon radius, a and the results are shown in Fig. 5. In Fig. 5, the temperature and free energy are plotted as a function of the thermalon’s location. It is clear that the temperature increases with bubble position. As \(\uplambda \) increases, the slope of \(T_+\) becomes more flatten. Moreover, we observe phase transition in free energy plots. As a increases, the thermalon configuration becomes more thermodynamically preferred. The phase transition is apparently more obvious as \(\uplambda \) is larger. The phase transition occurs at larger bubble’s location as \(\uplambda \) increases. Additionally, we observe that the physically relevant thermalon configuration exists at a smaller thermalon’s location a at lower \(\uplambda \).
By substituting results in Eqs. (25, 39, 41, 40) in the thermalon free energy Eq. (37), we are ready to study the thermodynamics phase space between F as function of \(T_+\). The relation between the Gibbs free energy and Hawking temperature \(T_+\) is illustrated in Fig. 6. In this figure, the parameter \(\uplambda \) is varied while the others are kept fixed. As \(\uplambda \) increases, the free energy become less dependent on temperature (the slope becomes more inclined). According to our numerical investigation, we particularly choose the value of \(\gamma _a=-2.296, \gamma _b=2.048\) and \(\gamma _c=0.1\) such that the thermalon’s location lies between the cosmological and event horizons. At small \(\uplambda \), the minimum value of F is increasing as \(\uplambda \) becomes larger. However, the minimum starts to decrease from \(\uplambda =0.25\) until it reaches the lowest value at \(\uplambda =1.2\). After that, the minimum of free energy rapidly increases as \(\uplambda \) increases.
Free energy F of the thermalon configuration as a function of the temperature \(T_+\) for various value of \(\uplambda \) with \(k=1\), \(L=1\), \(\gamma _a=-2.296\), \(\gamma _b=2.048\) and \(\gamma _c=0.1\). The subplot displays the behavior of free energy at larger value of \(\uplambda \). The colored code can be found in Fig. 5
In Fig. 7, the Gibbs free energy is displayed as a function of Hawking temperature. In this figure, we have varied cosmological constant L while other parameters are kept fixed. We observe that as L increases the free energy become less dependent on temperature which is similar to our results displayed in Fig. 6. The minimum value of free energy and the maximum value of temperature increase as L increases. We note here that the particular value of L is chosen such that the thermalon exists between the cosmological and event horizons.
As a result, we find that thermalon always produces the AdS to dS phase transition since all Gibbs free energies of the thermalon are negative at their maximum temperature for all possible values of the given Gauss–Bonnet coupling, \(\uplambda \). This is an interesting result in this work because usually, the Gauss–Bonnet coupling, \(\uplambda \) plays the role as the order parameter of the AdS to dS phase transition in both without [50, 51] and with the presences of the gauge fields [52, 53]. Our results suggest that with a proper value of \(\gamma _{a,b,c}\), the gravitational phase transition from AdS to dS is inevitable. Importantly, in this scenario, it implies that the graviton mass plays a role as the order parameter since \(\gamma _{a,b,c} \propto m^2\) rather than the Gauss–Bonnet coupling, \(\uplambda \), in changing of the effective CC value \(\Lambda _+ \rightarrow \Lambda _-\) via the thermalon mediated gravitational phase transition.
5 Conclusion
In recent years, the most widely studied theory in the higher curvature gravities is known as Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet (EGB) theory of gravity. The EGB theory of gravity is a special case of the Lovelocks gravity. The GB term is only nontrivial in spacetime dimensions \((4+1)D\) or greater. In this work, we have studied gravitational phase transition from AdS to dS geometries by engaging the well-defined massive theory of gravity to the EGB one. This inclusion basically features a matter field sector in the theory.
The thermalon induces the decay of the negative effective cosmological constant to the positive one due to the higher-order gravity effects and the decay mechanism proceeds through nucleation of the bubbles or the thermalon of true vacuum (dS) inside the false vacuum (thermal AdS) Refs. [19, 52]. It was demonstrated that the probability of the decay, P, of the thermalon effectively jumping from AdS to dS branch solutions is governed by \(P\propto e^{I_{E}}\) with \(I_E\) being the Euclidean action difference between initial thermal AdS and the thermalon (bubble state). As a result, the system will end up in the stable dS black hole after the thermalon expansion reaching the asymptotically dS region in a finite time.
We have also determined the thermodynamics phase space of the Hawking temperature and free energy and found that the free energy of the thermalon is always negative at the maximum of Hawking temperature for all specific values of the parameters of the massive gravity sector. Additionally, we have also discovered that a generic behavior of the phase transition in the EGBMG theory is affected by the specific values of the parameters in the massive gravity instead of the GB coupling in contrary to those cases found in the previous publications in which the authors have studied the vacuum and the charged cases.
With presence of the massive gravity sector, we have demonstrated that the phase transition mediated by thermalon from AdS to dS asymptotics is inevitable in the present work. and specific valued of the parameters in the massive gravity behave as the order parameters in the phase transition instead of the Gauss–Bonnet coupling. Interestingly, our results are in line with the claim that the generalized gravitational phase transition is a generic behavior of the higher-order gravity theories when the matter field is included.
Data Availability Statement
This manuscript has no associated data or the data will not be deposited. [Authors’ comment: We do not have any data related to this manuscript. It is a theoretical work only and no data is involved.]
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This work (Grant No. RGNS 64-217) was supported by Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (OPS MHESI), Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI) and Silpakorn University. We are graceful to Chakrit Pongkitivanichkul for useful discussion. P. Channuie acknowledged the Mid-Career Research Grant 2020 from National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT5-RSA63019-03). D. Samart is financially supported by the young researcher development project of Khon Kaen University and partially supported by the Mid-Career Research Grant 2021 from National Research Council of Thailand under a contract No. N41A640145. S.P. would like to acknowledge Piyabut Burikham for his advice and support.
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Ponglertsakul, S., Channuie, P. & Samart, D. Thermalon mediated AdS to dS phase transitions in Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet-massive gravity. Eur. Phys. J. C 82, 754 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10706-1
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