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The holographic dark energy model is obtained from a cosmological constant generated by generic quantum gravity effects giving a minimum length. By contrast, the usual bound for the energy density to be limited by the formation of a black hole simply gives the Friedmann equation. The scale of the current cosmological constant relative to the inflationary scale is an arbitrary parameter characterizing initial conditions, which however can be fixed by introducing a physical principle during inflation, as a function of the number of e-folds and the inflationary scale.
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Nastase, H. Quantum gravity and the holographic dark energy cosmology. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 149 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2016)149
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