Sinks in the landscape, Boltzmann brains and the cosmological constant problem
@article{Linde2006SinksIT, title={Sinks in the landscape, Boltzmann brains and the cosmological constant problem}, author={Andrei Linde}, journal={Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics}, year={2006}, volume={2007}, pages={022 - 022} }
This paper extends a recent investigation of the string theory landscape (Ceresole et al 2006 Phys. Rev. D 74 086010), where it was found that the decay rate of de Sitter (dS) vacua to a collapsing space with a negative vacuum energy can be quite large. The parts of space that experience a decay to a collapsing space, or to a Minkowski vacuum, never return back to dS space. The channels of irreversible vacuum decay serve as sinks for the probability flow. The existence of such sinks is a…
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