Eternal Inflation, Bubble Collisions, and the Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory

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2009-01-02

arxiv.org/abs/0901.0007v2

JCAP 0908:036,2009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

18+15 pages, 5 figures, 4 appendices v2: appendix added, minor changes

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2009/08/036

We compute the probability distribution for bubble collisions in an inflating false vacuum which decays by bubble nucleation. Our analysis generalizes previous work of Guth, Garriga, and Vilenkin to the case of general cosmological evolution inside the bubble, and takes into account the dynamics of the domain walls that form between the colliding bubbles. We find that incorporating these effects changes the results dramatically: the total expected number of bubble collisions in the past lightcone of a typical observer is N ~ \gamma V_f / V_i, where \gamma is the fastest decay rate of the false vacuum, V_f is its vacuum energy, and V_i is the vacuum energy during inflation inside the bubble. This number can be large in realistic models without tuning. In addition, we calculate the angular position and size distribution of the collisions on the cosmic microwave background sky, and demonstrate that the number of bubbles of observable angular size is N_{LS} \sim \sqrt{\Omega_k} N, where \Omega_k is the curvature contribution to the total density at the time of observation. The distribution is almost exactly isotropic.

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