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Univ Calif Berkeley, Ctr Theoret Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USAUniv Calif Berkeley, Ctr Theoret Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
Bousso, Raphael
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Katz, Dan Mainemer
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Univ Calif Berkeley, Ctr Theoret Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USAUniv Calif Berkeley, Ctr Theoret Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
Katz, Dan Mainemer
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[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Ctr Theoret Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[3] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
Global-local duality is the equivalence of seemingly different regulators in eternal inflation. For example, the light-cone time cutoff (a global measure, which regulates time) makes the same predictions as the causal patch (a local measure that cuts off space). We show that global-local duality is far more general. It rests on a redundancy inherent in any global cutoff: at late times, an attractor regime is reached, characterized by the unlimited exponential self-reproduction of a certain fundamental region of spacetime. An equivalent local cutoff can be obtained by restricting to this fundamental region. We derive local duals to several global cutoffs of interest. The new scale factor cutoff is dual to the short fat geodesic, a geodesic of fixed infinitesimal proper width. Vilenkin's comoving apparent horizon cutoff is equivalent to the Hubbletube, whose width is proportional to the local Hubble volume. The famous youngness problem of the proper time cutoff can be readily understood by considering its local dual, the incredible shrinking geodesic.