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Sharp Predictions from Eternal Inflation Patches in D-brane Inflation

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arxiv 1512.02722 v1 pith:3I4Y7PKB submitted 2015-12-09 astro-ph.CO hep-th

Sharp Predictions from Eternal Inflation Patches in D-brane Inflation

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We numerically generate the six-dimensional landscape of D3-brane inflation and identify patches of eternal inflation near sufficiently flat inflection points of the potential. We show that reasonable measures that select patches of eternal inflation in the landscape yield sharp predictions for the spectral properties of primordial perturbations on observable scales. These include a scalar tilt of .936, a running of the scalar tilt -.00103, undetectably small tensors and non-Gaussianity, and no observable spatial curvature. Our results explicitly demonstrate that precision cosmology probes the combination of the statistical properties of the string landscape and the measure implied by the universe's quantum state.

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