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Cosmological energy in a thermo-horizon and the first law

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We consider a cosmological horizon, named thermo-horizon, to which are associated a temperature and an entropy of Bekenstein-Hawking and which obeys the first law for an energy flow calculated through the corresponding limit surface. We point out a contradiction between the first law and the definition of the total energy contained inside the horizon. This contradiction is removed when the first law is replaced by a Gibbs' equation for a vacuum-like component associated to the event horizon.

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@article{arxiv.0705.0473,
  title  = {Cosmological energy in a thermo-horizon and the first law},
  author = {Cécile Barbachoux and Jérome Gariel and Gérard Le Denmat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.0473},
  year   = {2008}
}