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A causal model for a closed universe

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We study a closed model of a universe filled with viscous fluid and quintessence matter components. The dynamical equations imply that the universe might look like an accelerated flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe at low redshift. We consider here dissipative processes which obey a causal thermodynamics. Here, we account for the entropy production via causal dissipative inflation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0312219,
  title  = {A causal model for a closed universe},
  author = {M. Cataldo and S. del Campo and P. Minning and F. Pena},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0312219},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages. Accepted for publication in IJMPD

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