Topics in inflation and eternal inflation
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This thesis is divided to three parts. In Chapter 1 we study observational signatures of chaotic inflation with nonminimal coupling to gravity. In the next two chapters we focus on the eternal nature of inflation and the measure problem. In Chapter 2 we compare predictions of several measures in eternal versus non-eternal inflation. Finally in Chapter 3 we study the Boltzmann brain problem for the scale factor cutoff measure of eternal inflation.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Noorbala Tafti, Mahdiyar |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Physics |
| Primary advisor | Linde, A. D |
| Thesis advisor | Linde, A. D |
| Thesis advisor | Shenker, Stephen Hart, 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | Susskind, Leonard |
| Advisor | Shenker, Stephen Hart, 1953- |
| Advisor | Susskind, Leonard |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Mahdiyar Noorbala. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Physics. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2011 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2011 by Mahdiyar Noorbala Tafti
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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