firstname = "Pedro" lastname = "Labrana" email = "plabrana@ubiobio.cl" affiliation = "ICCUB/UBB" city = "Barcelona" country = "Spain" passportname = "" birthday = "" citizenship = "" passportnumber = "" passportissued = "" passportexpire = "" workplace = "" workaddress = "" visadates = "" transfer = "yes" talktitle = "Tunneling and The Emergent Universe Scheme" section = "C - Gravitation and cosmology" talkabstract = "We propose an alternative scheme for an emergent universo scenario where the universe is initially in a static state supported by a scalar field located in a false vacuum. The universe begins to evolve when, by quantum tunneling, the scalar field decays into a state of true vacuum. The emergent universe models are interesting since they provide specific examples of nonsingular inflationary universes." comments = "" submit = 0