Four-volume cutoff measure of the multiverse
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Vilenkin, Alexander
Yamada, Masaki
Date Issued
February 2020
Journal
Physical Review D
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American Physical Society (APS)
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Vilenkin, Alexander and Masaki Yamada. "Four-volume cutoff measure of the multiverse." Physical Review D 101, 4 (February 2020): 043520
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Abstract
Predictions in an eternally inflating multiverse are meaningless unless we specify the probability measure. The scale-factor cutoff is perhaps the simplest and most successful measure which avoids catastrophic problems such as the youngness paradox, runaway problem, and Boltzmann brain problem, but it is not well defined in contracting regions with a negative cosmological constant. In this paper, we propose a new measure with properties similar to the scale-factor cutoff which is well-defined everywhere. The measure is defined by a cutoff in the four volume spanned by infinitesimal comoving neighborhoods in a congruence of timelike geodesics. The probability distributions for the cosmological constant and for the curvature parameter in this measure are similar to those for the scale-factor cutoff and are in a good agreement with observations.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.101.043520
