Download or read book Topics in Inflation and Eternal Inflation written by Mahdiyar Noorbala Tafti and published by Stanford University. This book was released on 2011 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is divided to three parts. In Chapter 1 we study observational signatures of chaotic inflation with nonminimal coupling to gravity. In the next two chapters we focus on the eternal nature of inflation and the measure problem. In Chapter 2 we compare predictions of several measures in eternal versus non-eternal inflation. Finally in Chapter 3 we study the Boltzmann brain problem for the scale factor cutoff measure of eternal inflation.