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The End of Eternal Inflation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-08-05 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We propose a new measure for eternal inflation that includes both conditions, large field fluctuations and smooth homogeneous domains, in the self reproducing probability estimate. We show that due to the increasing inhomogeneities in the background spacetime fractal, self-reproduction stops within a finite time t_f, thus inflation can not be eternal.

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@article{arxiv.1211.1347,
  title  = {The End of Eternal Inflation},
  author = {Laura Mersini-Houghton and Malcolm J Perry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.1347},
  year   = {2014}
}

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