Energy conditions allow eternal inflation

Eternal inflation requires upward fluctuations of the energy in a Hubble volume, which appear to violate the energy conditions. In particular, a scalar field in an inflating spacetime should obey the averaged null energy condition, which seems to rule out eternal inflation. Here we show how eternal...

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Published in:Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics 2021-03, Vol.2021 (3), p.97
Main Authors: Kontou, Eleni-Alexandra, Olum, Ken D.
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