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Holographic probabilities in eternal inflation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v4 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In the global description of eternal inflation, probabilities for vacua are notoriously ambiguous. The local point of view is preferred by holography and naturally picks out a simple probability measure. It is insensitive to large expansion factors or lifetimes, and so resolves a recently noted paradox. Any cosmological measure must be complemented with the probability for observers to emerge in a given vacuum. In lieu of anthropic criteria, I propose to estimate this by the entropy that can be produced in a local patch. This allows for prior-free predictions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0605263,
  title  = {Holographic probabilities in eternal inflation},
  author = {Raphael Bousso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0605263},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures. v4: published version, misprints corrected (mu -> eta)