Holography, Cosmology, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Richard EastherDepartment of Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912David A. LoweDepartment of Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
1999en
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Abstract
We propose that the holographic principle be replaced by the generalized second law of thermodynamics when applied to time-dependent backgrounds. For isotropic open and flat universes with a fixed equation of state, this agrees with the cosmological holographic principle proposed by Fischler and Susskind (hep-th/9806039). However, in more general situations, it does not.
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