Agnesi weighting for the measure problem of cosmology
Don N. Page; Don N. Page; Theoretical Physics Institute, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Room 238 CEB, 11322 — 89 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G7, Canada
Журнал:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Дата:
2011-03-01
Аннотация:
The measure problem of cosmology is how to assign normalized probabilities to observations in a universe so large that it may have many observations occurring at many different spacetime locations. I have previously shown how the Boltzmann brain problem (that observations arising from thermal or quantum fluctuations may dominate over ordinary observations if the universe expands sufficiently and/or lasts long enough) may be ameliorated by volume averaging, but that still leaves problems if the universe lasts too long. Here a solution is proposed for that residual problem by a simple weighting factor 1/(1+t<sup>2</sup>) to make the time integral convergent. The resulting Agnesi measure appears to avoid problems other measures may have with vacua of zero or negative cosmological constant.
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