The volume of causal diamonds, asymptotically de Sitter space-times and irreversibility

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2009/02/022MaRDI QIDQ440558zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sergey N. Solodukhin

Publication date 18 August 2012

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.3410

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotically de Sitter space-times

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: In this note we prove that the volume of a causal diamond associated with an inertial observer in asymptotically de Sitter 4-dimensional space-time is monotonically increasing function of cosmological time. The asymptotic value of the volume is that of in maximally symmetric de Sitter space-time. The monotonic property of the volume is checked in two cases: in vacuum and in the presence of a massless scalar field. In vacuum, the volume flow (with respect to cosmological time) asymptotically vanishes if and only if future space-like infinity is 3-manifold of constant curvature. The volume flow thus represents irreversibility of asymptotic evolution in spacetimes with positive cosmological constant.

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