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Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 3305–3308 (1994)

Eternal inflation and the initial singularity

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Arvind Borde and Alexander Vilenkin
Institute of Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155

Received 28 October 1993; published in the issue dated 23 May 1994

It is shown that a physically reasonable spacetime that is eternally inflating to the future must possess an initial singularity.

© 1994 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.3305
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.3305
PACS:
98.80.Cq, 04.20.Dw