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Sinks in the Landscape, Boltzmann Brains, and the Cosmological Constant Problem
Andrei Linde · 2007 · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2007(01), 022
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Summary
Studies the string-theory landscape with terminal vacua acting as 'sinks' that absorb probability flow, and shows that local descriptions of the inflationary multiverse suffer from the Boltzmann-brain problem unless decay into sinks is sufficiently rapid.
Why it matters here
Sets up one of the main physical pathways for resolving the paradox — vacuum decay into terminal states before BBs can dominate.