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We investigate thermal activation of thin-shells around anti-de Sitter black holes. Under the thin-shell approximation, we extensively study the parameter region that allows a bubble nucleation bounded by a thin-shell out of a thermal bath. We show that in general if one fixes the temperature outside the shell, one needs to consider the presence of a conical deficit inside the shell in the Euclidean manifold, due to the lack of solutions with a smooth manifold. We show that for a given set of theoretical parameters, i.e., vacuum and shell energy density, there is a finite range of black hole masses that allow this transition. Most interestingly, one of them describes the complete evaporation of the initial black hole.
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Chen, P., Domènech, G., Sasaki, M. et al. Thermal activation of thin-shells in anti-de Sitter black hole spacetime. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 134 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2017)134
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