Eternal inflation, bubble collisions, and the disintegration of the persistence of memory

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Freivogel, Ben ^a,b   Kleban, Matthew ^c   Nicolis, Alberto ^d   Sigurdson, Kris ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cosmological phase transitions; Initial conditions and eternal universe; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350691926     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/08/036     Document Type: Article

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