Eternal inflation [[electronic resource] /] / Sergei Winitzki |
Autore | Winitzki Sergei |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | xvii, 218 p. : ill. (some col.) |
Disciplina | 523.1/8 |
Soggetto topico |
Expanding universe
Quantum cosmology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-76036-X
9786612760365 981-283-240-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455871503321 |
Winitzki Sergei | ||
New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Eternal inflation [[electronic resource] /] / Sergei Winitzki |
Autore | Winitzki Sergei |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | xvii, 218 p. : ill. (some col.) |
Disciplina | 523.1/8 |
Soggetto topico |
Expanding universe
Quantum cosmology |
ISBN |
1-282-76036-X
9786612760365 981-283-240-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780725403321 |
Winitzki Sergei | ||
New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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