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hep-th2010★ 51 cited
Local Observation in Eternal inflation
James Hartle, S. W. Hawking, Thomas Hertog
We consider landscape models that admit several regions where the conditions for eternal inflation hold. It is shown that one can use the no-boundary wave function to calculate sma…
hep-th2010★ 4 cited
The Xerographic Distribution: Scientific Reasoning in a Large Universe
Mark Srednicki, James Hartle
As observers of the universe we are physical systems within it. If the universe is very large in space and/or time, the probability becomes significant that the data on which we ba…
hep-th2010★ 45 cited
The No-Boundary Measure in the Regime of Eternal Inflation
James Hartle, S. W. Hawking, Thomas Hertog
The no-boundary wave function (NBWF) specifies a measure for prediction in cosmology that selects inflationary histories and remains well behaved for spatially large or infinite un…