Corpuscular Consideration of Eternal Inflation

Autor:	Kuhnel, Florian, Sandstad, Marit
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory
Zdroj:	Eur.Phys.J. C75 (2015) 10, 505
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3736-7
Popis:	We review the paradigm of eternal inflation in the light of the recently proposed corpuscular picture of space-time. Comparing the strength of the average fluctuation of the field up its potential with that of quantum depletion, we show that the latter can be dominant. We then study the full respective distributions in order to show that the fraction of the space-time which has an increasing potential is always below the eternal-inflation threshold. We prove that for monomial potentials eternal inflaton is excluded. This is likely to hold for other models as well. Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures; revised version to match submitted version
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02377 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv