We argue that, in the context of eternal inflation in the landscape, making predictions for cosmological-and possibly particle physics-observables requires a measure on the possible cosmological histories as opposed to one on the vacua themselves. If significant slow-roll inflation occurs, the observables are generally determined by the history after the last transition between metastable vacua. Hence, we start from several existing measures for counting vacua and develop measures for counting the transitions between vacua.
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Univ Cape Town, ZA-7701 Cape Town, South AfricaUniv Cape Town, ZA-7701 Cape Town, South Africa
Ellis, George F. R.
Stoeger, William R.
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Univ Cape Town, ZA-7701 Cape Town, South Africa
Univ Arizona, Steward Observ, Vatican Observ Res Grp, Tucson, AZ 85721 USAUniv Cape Town, ZA-7701 Cape Town, South Africa
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Stockholm Univ, Oskar Klein Ctr Cosmoparticle Phys, Dept Phys, S-10691 Stockholm, SwedenStockholm Univ, Oskar Klein Ctr Cosmoparticle Phys, Dept Phys, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
Kuhnel, Florian
Sandstad, Marit
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Univ Oslo, Inst Theoret Astrophys, N-0315 Oslo, NorwayStockholm Univ, Oskar Klein Ctr Cosmoparticle Phys, Dept Phys, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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Abdus Salam Int Ctr Theoret Phys, Strada Costiera 11, I-34014 Trieste, ItalyAbdus Salam Int Ctr Theoret Phys, Strada Costiera 11, I-34014 Trieste, Italy
Creminelli, Paolo
Dubovsky, Sergei
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Harvard Univ, Jefferson Phys Lab, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow 117312, RussiaAbdus Salam Int Ctr Theoret Phys, Strada Costiera 11, I-34014 Trieste, Italy
Dubovsky, Sergei
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Nicolis, Alberto
Senatore, Leonardo
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Harvard Univ, Jefferson Phys Lab, Cambridge, MA 02138 USAAbdus Salam Int Ctr Theoret Phys, Strada Costiera 11, I-34014 Trieste, Italy
Senatore, Leonardo
Zaldarriaga, Matias
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Harvard Univ, Jefferson Phys Lab, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Harvard Univ, Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USAAbdus Salam Int Ctr Theoret Phys, Strada Costiera 11, I-34014 Trieste, Italy
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Asia Pacific Ctr Theoret Phys, 67 Cheongam Ro, Pohang 37673, South KoreaAsia Pacific Ctr Theoret Phys, 67 Cheongam Ro, Pohang 37673, South Korea
Brahma, Suddhasattwa
Shandera, Sarah
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Penn State Univ, Inst Gravitat & Cosmos, 104 Davey Lab, University Pk, PA 16802 USAAsia Pacific Ctr Theoret Phys, 67 Cheongam Ro, Pohang 37673, South Korea