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arxiv: 0704.0144 · v3 · submitted 2007-04-02 · ✦ hep-th · astro-ph· gr-qc

Eternal inflation and localization on the landscape

classification ✦ hep-th astro-phgr-qc
keywords landscapedeltadistributioneternalfunctionhubbleinflationinfty
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We model the essential features of eternal inflation on the landscape of a dense discretuum of vacua by the potential $V(\phi)=V_{0}+\delta V(\phi)$, where $|\delta V(\phi)|\ll V_{0}$ is random. We find that the diffusion of the distribution function $\rho(\phi,t)$ of the inflaton expectation value in different Hubble patches may be suppressed due to the effect analogous to the Anderson localization in disordered quantum systems. At $t \to \infty$ only the localized part of the distribution function $\rho (\phi, t)$ survives which leads to dynamical selection principle on the landscape. The probability to measure any but a small value of the cosmological constant in a given Hubble patch on the landscape is exponentially suppressed at $t\to \infty$.

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