DO WE LIVIE IN AN ETERNALLY EXIS'tiNG SELF-REPRODUcING CHAOTIC INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE

 ETERNALLY EXIS'tlNG SELF-REPRODUciNG CHAOs INFLAntiONARY UNIVERSE 

A.D. LINDE International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 1-34000 Trieste, Italy and Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow 117924, USSR I Received 15 May 1986 

It is shown that the large-scale quantum fluctuations of the scalar field cp generated in the chaotic-inflation scenario lead to an infinite process of self-reproduction of inflationary mini-universes. A model of an eternally existing chaotic inflationary universe is suggested. 1. One of the most popular models of the evolution of the universe is the inflationary-universe scenario (for a review see ref. [1)). In our opinion, the most natural version of this scenario is the chaotic-inflation scenario