A Phase Space Approach to Gravitational Enropy
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-06-25 v1
Abstract
We examine the definition S = ln Omega as a candidate "gravitational entropy" function. We calculate its behavior for gravitationl and density perturbations in closed, open and flat cosmologies and find that in all cases it increases monotonically. Using the formalism to calculate the gravitational entropy produced during inflation gives the canonical answer. We compare the behavior of S with the behavior of the square of the Weyl tensor. Applying the formalism to black holes has proven more problematical.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9906002,
title = {A Phase Space Approach to Gravitational Enropy},
author = {Tony Rothman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9906002},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Talk delivered at South African Relativistic Cosmology Symposium, Feb 1999. Some new results over Rothman and Anninos 97. To appear in GRG, 17 pages