Distribution of Ωk from the scale-factor cutoff measure

被引:23
作者
De Simone, Andrea [1 ,2 ]
Salem, Michael P. [3 ]
机构
[1] MIT, Ctr Theoret Phys, Nucl Sci Lab, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[2] MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[3] Tufts Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Inst Cosmol, Medford, MA 02155 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2010年 / 81卷 / 08期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
PREDICTIONS; INFLATION; GALAXIES; CLUSTERS; VACUUM;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.083527
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Our Universe may be contained in one among a diverging number of bubbles that nucleate within an eternally inflating multiverse. A promising measure to regulate the diverging spacetime volume of such a multiverse is the scale-factor cutoff, one feature of which is bubbles are not rewarded for having a longer duration of slow-roll inflation. Thus, depending on the landscape distribution of the number of e-folds of inflation among bubbles like ours, we might hope to measure spatial curvature. We study a recently proposed cartoon model of inflation in the landscape and find a reasonable chance (about 10%) that the curvature in our Universe is well above the value expected from cosmic variance. Anthropic selection does not strongly select for curvature as small as is observed (relative somewhat larger values), meaning the observational bound on curvature can be used to rule out landscape models that typically give too little inflation.
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