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Ghost inflation and de Sitter entropy

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/08/002

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inflation; initial conditionsand eternal universe; physics of the early universe; cosmological perturbation theory

Funding

  1. World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan
  2. Labex [ANR-10-LABEX-63]
  3. Agence Nationale de la Recherche, as part of the programme Investissements d'avenir [ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02]
  4. Natural Science Foundation of China [11475065]
  5. Program for Leading Graduate Schools
  6. [21510256]
  7. [16J06266]
  8. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16J06266, 24540256] Funding Source: KAKEN

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In the setup of ghost condensation model the generalized second law of black hole thermodynamics can be respected under a radiatively stable assumption that couplings between the field responsible for ghost condensate and matter fields such as those in the Standard Model are suppressed by the Planck scale. Since not only black holes but also cosmology are expected to play important roles towards our better understanding of gravity, we consider a cosmological setup to test the theory of ghost condensation. In particular we shall show that the de Sitter entropy bound proposed by Arkani-Hamed, et al. is satisfied if ghost inflation happened in the early epoch of our universe and if there remains a tiny positive cosmological constant in the future infinity. We then propose a notion of cosmological Page time after inflation.

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