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Main Authors: Chang, Yijie, Tang, Shihang, Deng, Haowen, Wang, Yefeng, Ding, Ran, Huang, Fa Peng
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11408
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author Chang, Yijie
Tang, Shihang
Deng, Haowen
Wang, Yefeng
Ding, Ran
Huang, Fa Peng
author_facet Chang, Yijie
Tang, Shihang
Deng, Haowen
Wang, Yefeng
Ding, Ran
Huang, Fa Peng
contents Our early Universe is not perfectly homogeneous and it may contain some inhomogeneous sources, which might distort the local spacetime and modify the bubble nucleation rate. Taking the primordial black hole as an extreme example, we investigate the bubble nucleation rate of a first-order phase transition in the vicinity of primordial black holes or other primordial gravitational sources. Our analysis reveals that the presence of primordial black holes can reduce the effective action and might modify the nucleation rate due to their gravitational effects, potentially altering the dynamics of the phase transition in the early universe and producing new gravitational wave signals since the gravitational effects of the primordial black hole or other possible inhomogeneous sources could lead to nucleation of non-spherical symmetric bubbles.
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spellingShingle Effects of Early-Universe Inhomogeneity on Bubble Formation: Primordial Black Holes as an Extreme Case
Chang, Yijie
Tang, Shihang
Deng, Haowen
Wang, Yefeng
Ding, Ran
Huang, Fa Peng
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Our early Universe is not perfectly homogeneous and it may contain some inhomogeneous sources, which might distort the local spacetime and modify the bubble nucleation rate. Taking the primordial black hole as an extreme example, we investigate the bubble nucleation rate of a first-order phase transition in the vicinity of primordial black holes or other primordial gravitational sources. Our analysis reveals that the presence of primordial black holes can reduce the effective action and might modify the nucleation rate due to their gravitational effects, potentially altering the dynamics of the phase transition in the early universe and producing new gravitational wave signals since the gravitational effects of the primordial black hole or other possible inhomogeneous sources could lead to nucleation of non-spherical symmetric bubbles.
title Effects of Early-Universe Inhomogeneity on Bubble Formation: Primordial Black Holes as an Extreme Case
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11408