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Inflation: An Open and Shut Case
Dr. Stephen Hawking, ITP & Cambridge Univ
No boundary proposal can lead in a natural way to amplitudes for both closed and open universes without having to fine tune the scalar potential or assume it has a false vacuum. Including a four form from 11d supergravity, one can explain why the cosmological constant today is tiny but maybe not exactly zero.

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