Inflation driven by causal heat flux
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-06-25 v1
Abstract
We find a simple inflationary solution in an inhomogeneous spacetime with heat flux. The heat flux obeys a causal transport equation, and counteracts the inflationary decrease of energy density. At late times, the heat flux tends to zero and the fluid approaches the equation of state .
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9710135,
title = {Inflation driven by causal heat flux},
author = {Roy Maartens and Megan Govender and Sunil Maharaj},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9710135},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Latex 5 pages; to appear Gen. Rel. Grav