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In this article we give a review of recent results concerning the global structure of the inflationary universe, which have been obtained within stochastic approach to inflation. It is shown in particular that the evolution of the universe in the chaotic inflation scenario has no end and may have no beginning. In this scenario the major part of the physical volume of the universe always remains in the inflationary phase. During inflation the universe becomes divided into many exponentially large domains, inside which all possible metastable vacuum states and all possible types of compactification compatible with inflation are realized.
Goncharov et al. (Mon,) studied this question.