Observational consequences of a landscape

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/039zbMATH Open1226.83091arXivhep-th/0505232OpenAlexW2114900035MaRDI QIDQ648602FDOQ648602

Authors: Ben Freivogel, Matthew Kleban, María Rodríguez-Martínez, Leonard Susskind 

Publication date: 28 November 2011

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we consider the implications of the "landscape" paradigm for the large scale properties of the universe. The most direct implication of a rich landscape is that our local universe was born in a tunnelling event from a neighboring vacuum. This would imply that we live in an open FRW universe with negative spatial curvature. We argue that the "overshoot" problem, which in other settings would make it difficult to achieve slow roll inflation, actually favors such a cosmology. We consider anthropic bounds on the value of the curvature and on the parameters of inflation. When supplemented by statistical arguments these bounds suggest that the number of inflationary efolds is not very much larger than the observed lower bound. Although not statistically favored, the likelihood that the number of efolds is close to the bound set by observations is not negligible. The possible signatures of such a low number of efolds are briefly described.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0505232

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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