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ETERNAL CHAOTIC INFLATION

Modern Physics Letters APublished 1 May 1986Open access
Andrei Linde
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Abstract

It is shown that the evolution of the universe in the chaotic inflation scenario has no end and may have no beginning. According to this scenario, the universe consists of an exponentially large number of different mini-universes inside which all possible metastable vacuum states and all possible types of compactifications are realized.

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Earth and Planetary SciencesPhysics and Astronomy