Global-Local Duality in Eternal Inflation
arXiv:0904.2386 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.80.124024
Abstract
We prove that the light-cone time cut-off on the multiverse defines the same probabilities as a causal patch with initial conditions in the longest-lived metastable vacuum. This establishes the complete equivalence of two measures of eternal inflation which naively appear very different (though both are motivated by holography). The duality can be traced to an underlying geometric relation which we identify.
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