Thermodynamics in variable speed of light theories
Abstract
The perfect fluid in the context of a covariant variable speed of light theory proposed by J. Magueijo is studied. On the one hand the modified first law of thermodynamics together with a recipe to obtain equations of state are obtained. On the other hand the Newtonian limit is performed to obtain the nonrelativistic hydrostatic equilibrium equation for the theory. The results obtained are used to determine the time variation of the radius of Mercury induced by the variability of the speed of light (), and the scalar contribution to the luminosity of white dwarfs. Using a bound for the change of that radius and combining it with an upper limit for the variation of the fine structure constant, a bound on the time variation of is set. An independent bound is obtained from luminosity estimates for Stein 2015B.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0711.0797,
title = {Thermodynamics in variable speed of light theories},
author = {Juan Racker and Pablo Sisterna and Hector Vucetich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.0797},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
V2 (published version): 20 pages, 0 figures. Title shortened, a section on the luminosity of white dwarfs has been added, and small corrections have been made