Eternal inflation and the present universe

Authors
Citation
A. Vilenkin, Eternal inflation and the present universe, NUCL PH B-P, 88, 2000, pp. 67-74
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B-PROCEEDINGS SUPPLEMENTS
ISSN journal
09205632 → ACNP
Volume
88
Year of publication
2000
Pages
67 - 74
Database
ISI
SICI code
0920-5632(200006)88:<67:EIATPU>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
Eternally inflating universes can contain thermalized regions with differen t values of the cosmological parameters. In particular, the spectra of dens ity fluctuations should be different, because of the different realizations of quantum fluctuations of the inflaton field. I discuss a general method for calculating probability distributions for such variable parameters and analyze the density fluctuation spectrum as aspecific application.