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Quantum thermodynamics in a static de Sitter space-time and initial state of the universe

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-01-08 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Using Relativistic Quantum Geometry we study back-reaction effects of space-time inside the causal horizon of a static de Sitter metric, in order to make a quantum thermodynamical description of space-time. We found a finite number of discrete energy levels for a scalar field from a polynomial condition of the confluent hypergeometric functions expanded around r=0r=0. As in the previous work, we obtain that the uncertainty principle is valid for each energy level on sub-horizon scales of space-time. We found that temperature and entropy are dependent on the number of sub-states on each energy's level and the Bekenstein-Hawking temperature of each energy level is recovered when the number of sub-states of a given level tends to infinity. We propose that the primordial state of the universe could be described by a de Sitter metric with Planck energy Ep=mpc2E_p=m_p\,c^2, and a B-H temperature: TBH=(c2πlpKB)T_{BH}=\left(\frac{\hbar\,c}{2\pi\,l_p\,K_B}\right).

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@article{arxiv.1908.11716,
  title  = {Quantum thermodynamics in a static de Sitter space-time and initial state of the universe},
  author = {Juan Ignacio Musmarra and Mauricio Bellini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.11716},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Version accepted in EPJC. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1904.11599