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Bousso and Polchinski constructed a simplified model of the string
landscape, in which different regions of the universe have different
vacuum energies, and new vacua are created through bubble nucleation.
The probability of our observing a given vacuum energy is the product
of the anthropic selection function and the probability P(Λ)
of creating a bubble of such a vacuum. I will study this probability
distribution P(Λ) in the Bousso-Polchinski model, which is
determined by the dynamics of tunneling among the multiple
vacua. Since the actual string landscape is expected to be much less
ordered than the Bousso-Polchinski landscape, I will explore
generalizations of the model, including random perturbations of the
vacuum energies. Finally, the reheating of the universe in landscape
models will be discussed.
30 11 2006, ISCAP Seminar Room Pupin 908, 12:00 noon
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