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Variable-Speed-of-Light Cosmology and Second Law of Thermodynamics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We examine whether the cosmologies with varying speed of light (VSL) are compatible with the second law of thermodynamics. We find that the VSL cosmology with varying fundamental constant is severely constrained by the second law of thermodynamics, whereas the bimetric cosmological models are less constrained.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0203145,
  title  = {Variable-Speed-of-Light Cosmology and Second Law of Thermodynamics},
  author = {Donam Youm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0203145},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

15 pages, LaTeX, Revised version with minor corrections to appear in Phys. Rev. D