Local thermal equilibrium and ideal gas Stephani universes

DOI10.1007/S10714-005-0042-YMaRDI QIDQ2487284zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bartolomé Coll, Joan Josep Ferrando

Publication date 19 August 2005

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0406122

zbMATH Keywords

inhomogeneous cosmological modelsStephani universethermodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The Stephani universes that can be interpreted as an ideal gas evolving in local thermal equilibrium are determined. Five classes of thermodynamic schemes are admissible, which give rise to five classes of regular models and three classes of singular models. No Stephani universes exist representing an exact solution to a classical ideal gas (one for which the internal energy is proportional to the temperature). But some Stephani universes may approximate a classical ideal gas at first order in the temperature: all of them are obtained. Finally, some features about the physical behavior of the models are pointed out.

Review text

The authors study in a deductive and systematic way the question of obtaining of all Stephani universes that represent the evolution in local thermal equilibrium of a generic ideal gas and those that admit a first order contact in the temperature with the classical ideal gas. The main results of this paper are based on previous ones i.e. on an earlier obtained characterization of an ideal gas in local thermal equilibrium and on Bona and Coll thermodynamic schemes in Stephani universes. It is shown that five classes of thermodynamic schemes are admissible yielding, five classes of regular models and three classes of singular models. There are no Stephani universes representing an exact solution to a classical ideal gas, but some of them may approximate a classical ideal gas at first order in temperature. All such models are obtained in the paper. The authors present also analysis, how energy and compressibility conditions, restrict the domain where models have a good behaviour.

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