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Phase Transitions in General Gravity Theories

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Phase transitions between two competing vacua of a given theory are quite common in physics. We discuss how to construct the space-time solutions that allow the description of phase transitions between different branches (or asymptotics) of a given higher curvature gravity theory at finite temperature.

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Acknowledgements

The author thanks A. Gomberoff for most interesting discussions, and the Front of pro-Galician Scientists for encouragement. He is supported by a spanish FPU fellowship. This work is supported in part by MICINN and FEDER (grant FPA2011-22594), by Xunta de Galicia (Consellería de Educación and grant PGIDIT10PXIB206075PR), and by the Spanish Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme CPAN (CSD2007-00042).

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  1. Department of Particle Physics and IGFAE, University of Santiago de Compostela, E-15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Xián O. Camanho

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  1. Dept. of Mathematics, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Alfonso García-Parrado

  2. Dept. of Mathematics, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Filipe C. Mena

  3. Dept. of Mathematics, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Filipe Moura

  4. Dept. of Mathematics, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Estelita Vaz

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Camanho, X.O. (2014). Phase Transitions in General Gravity Theories. In: García-Parrado, A., Mena, F., Moura, F., Vaz, E. (eds) Progress in Mathematical Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 60. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40157-2_18

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