Published August 1, 2019
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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/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/08/009Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Journal Volume
- 2019
- Journal Issue
- 08
- Journal Page Range
- p. 009
- ISSN
- 1475-7516
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 51064991
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- APPROXIMATIONS; DE SITTER SPACE; FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION; INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; SCALAR FIELDS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
- Descriptors DEC
- CALCULATION METHODS; COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPACE