Observational Consequences of a Landscape

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2005-05-25

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0505232v2

JHEP 0603:039,2006

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

21 pages, 4 figures v2: references added

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/039

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.

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