Inflationary cosmology with scalar field and radiation

DOI10.1023/A:1026627430400MaRDI QIDQ1807423zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alexei Nesteruk

Publication date 18 November 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9905105

zbMATH Keywords

inflationary cosmologyinteractionparticle creationradiationscalar field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We present a simple, exact and self-consistent cosmology with a phenomenological model of quantum creation of radiation due to decay of the scalar field. The decay drives a non-isentropic inflationary epoch, which exits smoothly to the radiation era, without reheating. The initial vacuum for radiation is a regular Minkowski vacuum. The created radiation obeys standard thermodynamic laws, and the total entropy produced is consistent with the accepted value. We analyze the difference between the present model and a model with decaying cosmological constant previously considered.

Review text

The author has constructed a thermodynamically consistent cosmological model containing a scalar field interacting with radiation. The scalar field and radiation are not separately conserved, and it is shown how the decay of the scalar field leads to the creation of radiation particles. The phenomenological rate of particle creation is derived from the first law of thermodynamics applied to the radiation. The resulting Einstein field equations, together with the conservation equations, are not a closed system. In order to close the system of equations describing these models, the author makes an ansatz for both the scalar field potential, and the Hubble parameter. The scalar field potential is chosen to be consistent with initial conditions, and the Hubble parameter \(H\) is obtained by finding a candidate function that matches the asymptotic solutions. An exact solution is found and the behaviour of the scalar field and radiation discussed. A graphical plot of the radiation density and the scalar field density illustrates the creation of radiation through the decay of the scalar field.

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Cited in

(7)

• Inflationary cosmology with two-component fluid and thermodynamics
• Frame-covariant formulation of inflation in scalar-curvature theories
• Post-Inflationary Scalar Field Phase Dynamics
• Scalar field assisted f(R) gravity inflation
• Inflationary cosmology and thermodynamics
• Cosmological scalar fields and Big-Bang nucleosynthesis
• Scalar Field Cosmology

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