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Density parameter and the anthropic principle

Density parameter and the anthropic principle

In the context of open inflation, we calculate the probability distribution for the density parameter $\ensuremath{\Omega}.$ A large class of two field models of open inflation do not lead to infinite open universes, but to an ensemble of inflating islands of finite size, or ``quasi-open'' universes, where the density parameter …