Eternal inflation and localization on the landscape

被引:7
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作者
Podolsky, Dmitry [1 ]
Enqvist, Kari [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Helsinki, Helsinki Inst Phys, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[2] Univ Helsinki, Dept Phys, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
基金
芬兰科学院;
关键词
string theory and cosmology; inflation; quantum gravity phenomenology; physics of the early universe; FALSE VACUUM; FATE;
D O I
10.1088/1475-7516/2009/02/007
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We model essential features of eternal inflation on the landscape of a dense discretuum of vacua by the potential V (phi) = V-0 + delta V(phi), where vertical bar delta V(phi)vertical bar << V-0 is random. We find that the diffusion of the distribution function rho(phi, t) of the inflaton expectation value in different Hubble patches may be suppressed due to the effect analogous to the Anderson localization in disordered quantum systems. At late times only the localized part of the distribution function rho(phi, t) survives which leads to dynamical selection principle on the landscape. As a result, there exist such islands on the landscape that the probability to measure any but a small value of the cosmological constant in a given Hubble patch is exponentially suppressed.
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