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Statistical isotropy of the universe and the look-elsewhere effect
Alan H. Guth, Mohammad Hossein Namjoo
Recently, Jones et al. [arXiv:2310.12859] claimed strong evidence for the statistical anisotropy of the universe. The claim is based on a joint analysis of four different anomaly t…
Probabilistic inference in very large universes
Feraz Azhar, Alan H. Guth, Mohammad Hossein Namjoo
[Abridged] Some cosmological theories propose that the observable universe is a small part of a much larger universe in which parameters describing the low-energy laws of physics v…
On quantum creation of a toroidal universe
Alan H. Guth, Alexander Vilenkin
We consider the quantum creation of a universe with flat spatial sections and the topology of a 3-torus, taking into account the effect of Casimir energy. We show that the correspo…
Bayesian questions with frequentist answers
Alan H. Guth, Mohammad Hossein Namjoo
The two statistical methods, namely the frequentist and the Bayesian methods, are both commonly used for probabilistic inference in many scientific situations. However, it is not s…
A Bayesian View on the Dr. Evil Scenario
Feraz Azhar, Alan H. Guth, Mohammad Hossein Namjoo
In "Defeating Dr. Evil with Self-Locating Belief", Adam Elga proposes and defends a principle of indifference for self-locating beliefs: if an individual is confident that his worl…
Nonminimal Couplings and the Forgotten Field of Axion Inflation
Evan McDonough, Alan H. Guth, David I. Kaiser
We study the multifield dynamics of axion models nonminimally coupled to gravity. As usual, we consider a canonical symmetry-breaking model in which the axion is the phase o…