A violation of the covariant entropy bound?
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-05-06 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Several arguments suggest that the entropy density at high energy density should be given by the expression , where is a constant of order unity. On the other hand the covariant entropy bound requires that the entropy on a light sheet be bounded by , where is the area of the boundary of the sheet. We find that in a suitably chosen cosmological geometry, the above expression for violates the covariant entropy bound. We consider different possible explanations for this fact; in particular the possibility that entropy bounds should be defined in terms of volumes of regions rather than areas of surfaces.
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@article{arxiv.1412.2618,
title = {A violation of the covariant entropy bound?},
author = {Ali Masoumi and Samir D. Mathur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.2618},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
21 pages, 10 figures, More general derivation given, comments about viscosity effects added