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Corpuscular Consideration of Eternal Inflation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-11-16 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We review the paradigm of eternal inflation in the light of the recently proposed corpuscular picture of space-time. Comparing the strength of the average fluctuation of the field up its potential with that of quantum depletion, we show that the latter can be dominant. We then study the full respective distributions in order to show that the fraction of the space-time which has an increasing potential is always below the eternal-inflation threshold. We prove that for monomial potentials eternal inflaton is excluded. This is likely to hold for other models as well.

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@article{arxiv.1504.02377,
  title  = {Corpuscular Consideration of Eternal Inflation},
  author = {Florian Kuhnel and Marit Sandstad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.02377},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 2 figures; revised version to match submitted version