Towards a gauge invariant volume-weighted probability measure for eternal inflation
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Towards a gauge invariant volume-weighted probability measure for eternal inflation
An improved volume-weighted probability measure for eternal inflation is proposed. For the models studied in this paper it leads to simple and intuitively expected gaugeinvariant results.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1475-7516
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/06/017