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Of Inflation and the Inflaton
Robert Brout
Due to intra-field gravitational interactions, field configurations have a strong negative component to their energy density at the planckian and transplanckian scales, conceivably…
Entanglement and Thermodynamics of Black Hole Entropy
R. Brout
Using simple conditions drawn from the stability of the cosmos in terms of vacuum energy density, the cut-off momentum of entanglement is related to the planckian mass. In so doing…
A Primer for Black Hole Quantum Physics
Robert Brout, Serge Massar, Renaud Parentani +1
The mechanisms which give rise to Hawking radiation are revealed by analyzing in detail pair production in the presence of horizons. In preparation for the black hole problem, thre…
The Causet Mechanism for the Creation of Energy
Robert Brout
Sorkin's causet mechanism is generalized to include energy exchange between causet elements and conventional vacuum fluctuations to the inflationary epoch. In this, the dark energy…
From Inflation to Dark Energy
Robert Brout
It is proposed that after the macroscopic fluctuation of energy density that is responsible for inflation dies away, a class of microscopic fluctuations, always present, survives t…
Condensation of Planckian Modes and the Inflaton
Robert Brout
To confront the transplanckian problem encountered in the backward extrapolation of the cosmological expansion of the momenta of the modes of quantum field theory, it is proposed t…