Inflation via Black Holes with Quantized Area Spectrum
arXiv:hep-th/0211117
Abstract
I present a very simplistic toy model for the inflationary paradigm where the size of the universe undergoes a period of exponential growth. The basic assumption I make use of is that black holes might have a quantized area (mass) spectrum with a stable ground state and that the universe has started with a tightly packed collection of these objects alone.
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