Eternal inflation / Sergei Winitzki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winitzki, Sergei.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Expanding universe.

Quantum cosmology.

Physical Description:

xvii, 218 p. : ill. (some col.).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Jersey : World Scientific, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Inflationary cosmology. 2.1. The inflationary paradigm. 2.2. Slow-roll inflation and attractors

3. Eternal inflation. 3.1. Predictions in eternal inflation. 3.2. Physical justifications of the semiclassical picture

4. Stochastic approach to inflation. 4.1. Eternal inflation of random walk type. 4.2. Presence of eternal inflation

5. Models with bubble nucleation

6. The measure problem and proposed solutions. 6.1. Observer-based measures. 6.2. Regularization for a single reheating surface. 6.3. Regularization for multiple types of reheating surfaces. 6.4. Youngness paradox and "Boltzmann brains"

7. The RV measure : first look. 7.1. Reheating-volume cutoff. 7.2. RV cutoff in slow-roll inflation

8. The RV measure for random-walk inflation. 8.1. Preliminary results. 8.2. Overview of the results. 8.3. Derivations

9. The RV measure for the landscape. 9.1. Regulating the number of terminal bubbles. 9.2. Regulating the total number of bubbles. 9.3. A toy landscape. 9.4. A general landscape

10. Conclusion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index.

ISBN:

9786612760365

9781282760363

128276036X

9789812832405

9812832408

OCLC:

729020431