AdS₃ spacetime genus fluctuations and their influence on the false vacuum decay

In this work, we studied the genus fluctuations of the AdS₃ spacetime. The tunneling action of the high genus AdS₃ spacetime is formulated in the Siegel upper half space. Adopting the dilute wormhole gas approximation, we computed the genus creation rate in the semiclassical region. We show that a genus is more easily created in the spacetime corresponding to a larger absolute value of the cosmological constant. We find that fluctuations of fat wormholes are more likely to occur than those of thin wormholes. We also studied the influence of genus fluctuations on false vacuum decay. The vacuum decay rate will increase if the effect of genus fluctuations is included. We show that all results do not change qualitatively when the values of certain parameters are changed.