Phys. Rev. D 70, 026001 (2004) - Holography and eternal inflation

Holography and eternal inflation

David A. Lowe and Donald Marolf

Phys. Rev. D 70, 026001 – Published 19 July 2004

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.

Received 19 March 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.026001

©2004 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

David A. Lowe^*

Physics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA

Donald Marolf^†

Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA

^*Electronic address: lowe@brown.edu
^†Electronic address: marolf@physics.ucsb.edu

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Vol. 70, Iss. 2 — 15 July 2004

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