Inflationary cosmology and thermodynamics

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/4/014zbMATH Open0933.83041arXivastro-ph/9703137OpenAlexW2005683648WikidataQ63390707 ScholiaQ63390707MaRDI QIDQ4699663FDOQ4699663

Authors: Roy Maartens, Alexei Nesteruk, Edgar Gunzig 

Publication date: 18 November 1999

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a simple and thermodynamically consistent cosmology with a phenomenological model of quantum creation of radiation due to vacuum decay. Thermodynamics and Einstein's equations lead to an equation in which $H$ is determined by the particle number $N$. The model is completed by specifying the particle creation rate $Gamma=dotN/N$, which leads to a second-order evolution equation for $H$. We propose a simple $Gamma$ that is naturally defined and that conforms to the thermodynamical conditions: (a) the entropy production rate starts at a maximum; (b) the initial vacuum (for radiation) is a non-singular regular vacuum; and (c) the creation rate is initially higher than the expansion rate $H$, but then falls below $H$. The evolution equation for $H$ then has a remarkably simple exact solution, in which a non-adiabatic inflationary era exits smoothly to the radiation era, without a reheating transition. For this solution, we give exact expressions for the cosmic scale factor, energy density of radiation and vacuum, temperature, entropy and super-horizon scalar perturbations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9703137

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zbMATH Keywords

matter creation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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