English

Eternal inflation and localization on the landscape

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-02-09 v3 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We model the essential features of eternal inflation on the landscape of a dense discretuum of vacua by the potential V(ϕ)=V0+δV(ϕ)V(\phi)=V_{0}+\delta V(\phi), where δV(ϕ)V0|\delta V(\phi)|\ll V_{0} is random. We find that the diffusion of the distribution function ρ(ϕ,t)\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 tt \to \infty only the localized part of the distribution function ρ(ϕ,t)\rho (\phi, t) survives which leads to dynamical selection principle on the landscape. The probability to measure any but a small value of the cosmological constant in a given Hubble patch on the landscape is exponentially suppressed at tt\to \infty.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0704.0144,
  title  = {Eternal inflation and localization on the landscape},
  author = {D. Podolsky and K. Enqvist},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0144},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages; more references added; discussion enlarged