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CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
Volume 31, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/31/21/215008
Keywords
quantum cosmology; Wheeler-de Witt equation; landscape
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- DOE [DE-FG02-06ER1418]
- Bahnson fund
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/L000385/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/L000385/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We investigate the validity of the assertion that eternal inflation populates the landscape of string theory. We verify that bubble solutions do not satisfy the Klein-Gordon equation for the landscape potential. Solutions to the landscape potential within the formalism of quantum cosmology are Anderson localized wavefunctions. These are inconsistent with inflating bubble solutions. The physical reasons behind the failure of a relation between eternal inflation and the landscape are rooted in quantum phenomena such as interference between wavefunction concentrated around the various vacua in the landscape.
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