期刊
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/05/030
关键词
inflation; initial conditions and eternal universe; quantum cosmology
资金
- MEC (EC) [SEV-2014-0398, FPA2014-54459]
- FEDER (EC) [SEV-2014-0398, FPA2014-54459]
- Generalitat Valenciana [PROME-TEOII/2013/017]
- European Union [PITN-GA-2011-289442, H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015-690575]
- University of Valencia
- National Science Foundation [NSF-PHY-1417317]
We consider eternal inflation in hilltop-type inflation models, favored by current data, in which the scalar field in inflation rolls off of a local maximum of the potential. Unlike chaotic or plateau-type inflation models, in hilltop inflation the region of field space which supports eternal inflation is finite, and the expansion rate H-EI during eternal inflation is almost exactly the same as the expansion rate H-*, during slow roll inflation. Therefore, in any given Hubble volume, there is a finite and calculable expectation value for the lifetime of the eternal inflation phase, during which quantum flucutations dominate over classical field evolution. We show that despite this, inflation in hilltop models is nonetheless eternal in the sense that the volume of the spacetime at any finite time is exponentially dominated by regions which continue to inflate. This is true regardless of the energy scale of inflation, and eternal inflation is supported for inflation at arbitrarily low energy scale.
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