Holography and the large number hypothesis

Guillermo A. Mena Marugán and Saulo Carneiro
Phys. Rev. D 65, 087303 – Published 8 April 2002
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Abstract

Dirac’s large number hypothesis is motivated by certain scaling transformations that relate the parameters of macro and microphysics. We show that these relations can actually be explained in terms of the holographic N bound conjectured by Bousso and a series of purely cosmological observations, namely, that our universe is spatially homogeneous, isotropic, and flat to a high degree of approximation and that the cosmological constant dominates the energy density at present.

  • Received 12 September 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.65.087303

©2002 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Guillermo A. Mena Marugán

  • IMAFF, CSIC, Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain

Saulo Carneiro

  • IMAFF, CSIC, Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain
  • Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-340, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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Vol. 65, Iss. 8 — 15 April 2002

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