Local Observation in Eternal Inflation

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作者
Hartle, James [1 ]
Hawking, S. W. [2 ]
Hertog, Thomas [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Phys, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[2] CMS, DAMTP, Cambridge CB3 0WA, England
[3] Univ Paris 07, CNRS, APC, UMR 7164, F-75205 Paris, France
[4] Int Solvay Inst, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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12;
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.141302
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We consider landscape models that admit several regions where the conditions for eternal inflation hold. It is shown that one can use the no-boundary wave function to calculate small departures from homogeneity within our past light cone despite the possibility of much larger fluctuations on super horizon scales. The dominant contribution comes from the history exiting eternal inflation at the lowest value of the potential. In a class of landscape models this predicts a tensor to scalar ratio of about 10%. In this way the no-boundary wave function defines a measure for the prediction of local cosmological observations.
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