TY - INPR A1 - Ecker, Christian A1 - Kiritsis, Elias A1 - Schee, Wilke van der T1 - A dynamical inflaton coupled to strongly interacting matter T2 - arXiv N2 - According to the inflationary theory of cosmology, most elementary particles in the current universe were created during a period of reheating after inflation. In this work we self-consistently couple the Einstein-inflaton equations to a strongly coupled quantum field theory (QFT) as described by holography. We show that this leads to an inflating universe, a reheating phase and finally a universe dominated by the QFT in thermal equilibrium. Y1 - 2023 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/82550 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-825506 UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06618v1 IS - 2302.06618 Version 1 PB - arXiv ER -