02721nam 2200589 a 450 991045587150332120200520144314.01-282-76036-X9786612760365981-283-240-8(CKB)2490000000001625(StDuBDS)AH24686036(SSID)ssj0000417153(PQKBManifestationID)12142706(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000417153(PQKBWorkID)10436216(PQKB)10689444(MiAaPQ)EBC1681562(WSP)00000510 (Au-PeEL)EBL1681562(CaPaEBR)ebr10422169(CaONFJC)MIL276036(OCoLC)729020431(EXLCZ)99249000000000162520091123d2009 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrEternal inflation[electronic resource] /Sergei WinitzkiNew Jersey World Scientificc2009xvii, 218 p. ill. (some col.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph981-283-239-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index.1. Introduction -- 2. Inflationary cosmology. 2.1. The inflationary paradigm. 2.2. Slow-roll inflation and attractors -- 3. Eternal inflation. 3.1. Predictions in eternal inflation. 3.2. Physical justifications of the semiclassical picture -- 4. Stochastic approach to inflation. 4.1. Eternal inflation of random walk type. 4.2. Presence of eternal inflation -- 5. Models with bubble nucleation -- 6. The measure problem and proposed solutions. 6.1. Observer-based measures. 6.2. Regularization for a single reheating surface. 6.3. Regularization for multiple types of reheating surfaces. 6.4. Youngness paradox and "Boltzmann brains" -- 7. The RV measure : first look. 7.1. Reheating-volume cutoff. 7.2. RV cutoff in slow-roll inflation -- 8. The RV measure for random-walk inflation. 8.1. Preliminary results. 8.2. Overview of the results. 8.3. Derivations -- 9. The RV measure for the landscape. 9.1. Regulating the number of terminal bubbles. 9.2. Regulating the total number of bubbles. 9.3. A toy landscape. 9.4. A general landscape -- 10. Conclusion..Expanding universeQuantum cosmologyElectronic books.Expanding universe.Quantum cosmology.523.1/8Winitzki Sergei312372MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455871503321Eternal inflation1987949UNINA