Landscape predictions from cosmological vacuum selection

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作者
Bousso, Raphael [1 ]
Yang, I-Sheng
机构
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Ctr Theoret Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[3] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2007年 / 75卷 / 12期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.75.123520
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
In Bousso-Polchinski models with hundreds of fluxes, we compute the effects of cosmological dynamics on the probability distribution of landscape vacua. Starting from generic initial conditions, we find that most fluxes are dynamically driven into a different and much narrower range of values than expected from landscape statistics alone. Hence, cosmological evolution will access only a tiny fraction of the vacua with small cosmological constant. This leads to a host of sharp predictions. Unlike other approaches to eternal inflation, the holographic measure employed here does not lead to staggering, an excessive spread of probabilities that would doom the string landscape as a solution to the cosmological constant problem.
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