The string theory landscape consists of many metastable de Sitter vacua,
populated by eternal inflation. Tunneling between these vacua gives rise to a
dynamical system, which asymptotically settles down to an equilibrium state. We
investigate the effects of sinks to anti-de Sitter space, and show how their
existence can change probabilities in the landscape. Sinks can disturb the
thermal occupation numbers that would otherwise exist in the landscape and may
cause regions that were previously in thermal contact to be divided into
separate, thermally isolated islands.
Preprint
Comment: 31 pages, 8 figures
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory; Astrophysics; General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology