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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…
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…
The Inflaton and its Mass
Robert Brout
In the context of the two fluid model of space-time fluctuations proposed to tame the transplanckian problem encountered in black hole physics, it is postulated that the inflaton i…
Who is the Inflaton?
R. Brout
In the context of the two-fluid model introduced to tame the transplanckian problem of black hole physics, the inflaton field of the chaotic inflation scenario is identified with t…