Measuring the strength of dissipative inflation
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-06-25 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
We comment on recently proposed dissipative inflationary models. It is shown that the strength of the inflationary expansion is related to a specific combination of thermodynamic variables which is known to measure the instability of self-gravitating dissipative systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9912043,
title = {Measuring the strength of dissipative inflation},
author = {L. Herrera and A. Di Prisco and D. Pavon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9912043},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
8 pages, Latex. To appear in Gen.Rel.Grav