A Stochastic Measure for Eternal Inflation
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-18 v1 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We use the stochastic approach to investigate the measure for slow roll eternal inflation. The probability for the universe of a given Hubble radius can be calculated in this framework. In a solvable model, it is shown that the probability for the universe to evolve from a state with a smaller Hubble radius to that of a larger Hubble radius is dominated by the classical probability without the stochastic source. While the probability for the universe to evolve from a larger Hubble radius to a smaller one is suppressed by , where the de Sitter entropy arises naturally in this stochastic approach.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0706.1691,
title = {A Stochastic Measure for Eternal Inflation},
author = {Miao Li and Yi Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.1691},
year = {2009}
}