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hep-th2009★ 19 cited
Smooth Initial Conditions from Weak Gravity
Brian Greene, Kurt Hinterbichler, Simon Judes +1
CMB measurements reveal an unnaturally smooth early universe. We propose a mechanism to make this smoothness natural by weakening the strength of gravity at early times, and theref…
hep-th2009★ 15 cited
Enhanced Instability of de Sitter Space in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
Maulik K. Parikh
We show that the addition of a topological Gauss-Bonnet term to the gravitational action can greatly increase the instability of four-dimensional de Sitter space, by favoring the n…
hep-th2009★ 10 cited
Beyond the Einstein Equation of State: Wald Entropy and Thermodynamical Gravity
Maulik K. Parikh, Sudipta Sarkar
We show that the classical equations of gravity follow from a thermodynamic relation, dQ = T dS, where S is taken to be the Wald entropy, applied to a local Rindler horizon at any…