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Bulk viscosity and deflationary universes

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We analyze the conditions that make possible the description of entropy generation in the new inflationary model by means of a nearequilibrium process. We show that there are situations in which the bulk viscosity cannot describe particle production during the coherent field oscillations phase.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0708.3280,
  title  = {Bulk viscosity and deflationary universes},
  author = {J. A. S. Lima and R. Portugal and I. Waga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.3280},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

7 pages, no figures

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