Holography and Eternal Inflation
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-10 v2 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We show that eternal inflation is compatible with holography. In particular, we emphasize that if a region is asymptotically de Sitter in the future, holographic arguments by themselves place no bound on the number of past e-foldings. We also comment briefly on holographic restrictions on the production of baby universes.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0402162,
title = {Holography and Eternal Inflation},
author = {David A. Lowe and Donald Marolf},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0402162},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages, 3 figures, revtex4, (v2 relation with work of Banks and Fischler clarified, references added)