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Global equilibrium and local thermodynamics in stationary spacetimes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-12-27 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In stationary spacetimes global equilibrium states can be defined, applying the maximum entropy principle, by the introduction of local thermodynamic fields determined solely by geometry. As an example, we study a class of equilibrium states for a scalar field in Einstein's static universe, characterized by inhomogeneous thermodynamic properties and nonvanishing angular momentum.

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@article{arxiv.1511.05963,
  title  = {Global equilibrium and local thermodynamics in stationary spacetimes},
  author = {Rodolfo Panerai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.05963},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

9 pages; v2: minor changes, published version; v3: reintroduced a paragraph from v1