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A note on entropic force and brane cosmology

Journal Article · · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
 [1];  [2]
  1. Center for Relativistic Astrophysics and High Energy Physics, Department of Physics, Nanchang University, 330031 (China)
  2. Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875 (China)
Recently Verlinde proposed that gravity is an entropic force caused by information changes when a material body moves away from the holographic screen. In this note we apply this argument to brane cosmology, and show that the cosmological equation can be derived from this holographic scenario.
OSTI ID:
22272813
Journal Information:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Journal Issue: 08 Vol. 2010; ISSN 1475-7516
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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