Eur. Phys. J. C (2015) 75: 125
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3346-4

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

QED vacuum loops and inflation

¹ Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA
² Institut Non Linéaire de Nice, UMR 6618 CNRS, 1361 Route des Lucioles, 06560, Valbonne, France

^* e-mail: yves.gabellini@unice.fr

Received: 18 February 2015
Accepted: 5 March 2015
Published online: 17 March 2015

Abstract

A QED-based model of a new version of vacuum energy has recently been suggested, which leads to a simple, finite, one parameter representation of dark energy. An elementary, obvious, but perhaps radical generalization is then able to describe both dark energy and inflation in the same framework of vacuum energy. One further, obvious generalization then leads to a relation between inflation and the big bang, to the automatic inclusion of dark matter, and to a possible understanding of the birth (and death) of a universe.