@article{ce5e3599a79546359b08157663e7f54f,
title = "Entropic inflation",
abstract = "One of the major pillars of modern cosmology theory is a period of accelerating expansion in the early universe. This accelerating expansion, or inflation, must be sustained for at least 30 e-foldings. One mechanism used to drive the acceleration is the addition of a new energy field, called the inflaton; often this is a scalar field. We propose an alternative mechanism which, like our approach to explain the late-time accelerating universe, uses the entropy and temperature intrinsic to information holographically stored on a surface enclosing the observed space. The acceleration is due in both cases to an emergent entropic force, naturally arising from the information storage on the horizon.",
keywords = "Entropic force, Inflation",
author = "Damien Easson and Frampton, {Paul H.} and Smoot, {George F.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI initiative), MEXT, Japan. G. F. S. would like to thank Sumit R. Das for simulating discussions on the string theory approach to determine the higher-order terms for the entropy. P. H. F. acknowledges useful discussions with S. Adler and T. Banks at the Gell-Mann festschrift. The work of D. A. E. is supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (21740167) from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), by the Cosmology Initiative at Arizona State University and by the National Science Foundation (KITP, UCSB) under Grant Funding Information: No. PHY05-51164. The work of P. H. F. was supported in part by US Department of Energy Grant No. DE-FG02-05ER41418. G. F. S. is supported in part by US Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, by WCU program of NRF/MEST (R32-2009-000-10130-0) and by CNRS Chaire Blaise Pascal.",
year = "2012",
month = may,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1142/S0217751X12500662",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "27",
journal = "International Journal of Modern Physics A",
issn = "0217-751X",
publisher = "World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd",
number = "12",
}