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hep-th2004★ 96 cited
Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time
Sean M. Carroll, Jennifer Chen
We suggest that spontaneous eternal inflation can provide a natural explanation for the thermodynamic arrow of time, and discuss the underlying assumptions and consequences of this…
hep-th2003★ 114 cited
Sidestepping the Cosmological Constant with Football-Shaped Extra Dimensions
Sean M. Carroll, Monica M. Guica
We present an exact solution for a factorizable brane-world spacetime with two extra dimensions and explicit brane sources. The compactification manifold has the topology of a two-…