Thermodynamics of the Stephani Universes

DOI10.1063/1.531126MaRDI QIDQ4836824zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hernando Quevedo, Roberto A. Sussman

Publication date 9 November 1995

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9411021

zbMATH Keywords

conformally flat solutionfree parameterFriedman-Robertson-Walker cosmologiesGibbs-Duhem relationirrotational perfect fluid sourceisometry groupunphysical temperature evolution law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05) Thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A99) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We examine the consistency of the thermodynamics of the most general class of conformally flat solution with an irrotational perfect fluid source (the Stephani Universes). For the case when the isometry group has dimension $rge2$, the Gibbs-Duhem relation is always integrable, but if $r<2$ it is only integrable for the particular subclass (containing FRW cosmologies) characterized by $r=1$ and by admitting a conformal motion parallel to the 4-velocity. We provide explicit forms of the state variables and equations of state linking them. These formal thermodynamic relations are determined up to an arbitrary function of time which reduces to the FRW scale factor in the FRW limit of the solutions. We show that a formal identification of this free parameter with a FRW scale factor determined by FRW dynamics leads to an unphysical temperature evolution law. If this parameter is not identified with a FRW scale factor, it is possible to find examples of solutions and formal equations of state complying with suitable energy conditions and reasonable asymptotic behavior and temperature laws.

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