Published August 1, 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

Conditions for (no) eternal inflation

Creators

  • 1. School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540 (United States)

Description

We construct analytic and numerical solutions of the Fokker-Planck equation that arises in the context of stochastic inflation. We use these solutions to derive necessary conditions for eternal inflation on the higher derivatives of the scalar field potential and examine the prospects for eternal inflation in a variety of popular models. We note similarities between the conditions needed to avoid eternal inflation and several recently-proposed Swampland criteria, which leads us to speculate on the possibility that the de Sitter Swampland conjectures should be viewed as approximate consequences of a No Eternal Inflation principle.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/08/009

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2019
Journal Issue
08
Journal Page Range
p. 009
ISSN
1475-7516