Measures on transitions for cosmology from eternal inflation

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作者
Aguirre, Anthony [1 ]
Gratton, Steven
Johnson, Matthew C.
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[1] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, SCIPP, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[2] Inst Astron, Cambridge CB3 0HA, England
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.131301
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We argue that, in the context of eternal inflation in the landscape, making predictions for cosmological-and possibly particle physics-observables requires a measure on the possible cosmological histories as opposed to one on the vacua themselves. If significant slow-roll inflation occurs, the observables are generally determined by the history after the last transition between metastable vacua. Hence, we start from several existing measures for counting vacua and develop measures for counting the transitions between vacua.
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