Paolo Creminelli et al JHEP09(2008)036 doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/036
The phase transition to eternal inflation
Paolo Creminelli1, Sergei Dubovsky2,3, Alberto Nicolis4, Leonardo Senatore2 and Matias Zaldarriaga2,5
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2/H4 = 3/(2π2), where the probability distribution for the reheating volume undergoes a sharp transition. In particular, for sub-critical inflaton speeds all distribution moments become infinite. We show that at the same transition point the system develops a non-vanishing probability of having a strictly infinite reheating volume, while retaining a finite probability for finite values. Our analysis represents the exact quantum treatment of the system at lowest order in the slow-roll parameters and H2/MPl2.
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Issue 09 (September 2008)
Received 16 May 2008, accepted for publication 12 August 2008
Published 5 September 2008
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The phase transition to eternal inflation
Paolo Creminelli et al JHEP09(2008)036
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