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arxiv: gr-qc/9312022 · v1 · submitted 1993-12-15 · 🌀 gr-qc

Eternal inflation and the initial singularity

Arvind Borde , Alexander Vilenkin This is my paper
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It is shown that a physically reasonable spacetime that is eternally inflating to the future must possess an initial singularity.

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