A dynamical inflaton coupled to strongly interacting matter
High Energy Physics - Theory
2024-06-03 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
According to the inflationary theory of cosmology, most elementary particles in the current universe were created during a period of reheating after inflation. In this work we self-consistently couple the Einstein-inflaton equations to a strongly coupled quantum field theory (QFT) as described by holography. We show that this leads to an inflating universe, a reheating phase and finally a universe dominated by the QFT in thermal equilibrium.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2302.06618,
title = {A dynamical inflaton coupled to strongly interacting matter},
author = {Christian Ecker and Elias Kiritsis and Wilke van der Schee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.06618},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
5 pages, 5 figures and supplemental material. Comments welcome