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Conformal symmetry and cosmological entropy production (English)
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10 September 2002
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Summary: Introducing an effective refraction index of an isotropic cosmic medium, we investigate the cosmological fluid dynamics which is consistent with a conformal, timelike symmetry of a corresponding ``optical'' metric. We demonstrate that this kind of symmetry is compatible with the existence of a negative viscous pressure and, consequently, with cosmological entropy production. We establish an exactly solvable model according to which the viscous pressure is a consequence of a self-interacting one-particle force which is self-consistently exerted on the microscopic particles of a relativistic gas. Furthermore, we show that a sufficiently high decay rate of the refraction index of an ultrarelativistic cosmic medium results in an inflationary expansion of the universe.
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general relativity
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cosmology
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thermohydrodynamics
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kinetic theory
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inflationary universe
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