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'Chaotic inflation theory', first formulated by Andrei Linde, models quantum fluctuations in the rate of cosmic inflation^[1]. Those regions with a higher rate of inflation expand faster and dominate the universe, despite the natural tendency of inflation to end in other regions. This allows inflation to continue forever, to produce future-eternal inflation. More recently past-eternal models have been proposed which adhere to the perfect cosmological principle and have features of the steady state cosmos.^[2][3]

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1. Eternal chaotic inflation, A. Linde, , , Mod. Phys. Lett., 1986 Eternally existing self-reproducing chaotic inflationary universe, A. Linde, , , Phys. Lett., 1986
2. Anthony Aguirre, Steven Gratton, ''Inflation without a beginning: A null boundary proposal'', Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 083515, [1]
3. Anthony Aguirre, Steven Gratton, ''Steady-State Eternal Inflation'', Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 083507, [2]
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