Inflation, phase transitions and the cosmological constant

DOI10.1007/S10714-021-02877-1MaRDI QIDQ2059792zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors O. Bertolami

Publication date 14 December 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09456

zbMATH Keywords

Bekenstein entropy-energy relationcosmological constantinflationphase transitions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

Abstract: Cosmological phase transitions are thought to have taken place at the early Universe imprinting their properties on the observable Universe. There is strong evidence that, through the dynamics of a scalar field that lead a second order phase transition, inflation shaped the Universe accounting for the most conspicuous features of the observed Universe. It is argued that inflation has also striking implications for the vacuum energy. Considerations for subsequent second order phase transitions are also discussed.

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