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We investigate the generalized second law (GSL) of thermodynamics in the framework of $f(R)$-gravity. We consider a FRW universe filled only with ordinary matter enclosed by the dynamical apparent horizon with the Hawking temperature. For a…

General Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 K. Karami , M. S. Khaledian , N. Abdollahi

In blackhole physics, the second law of thermodynamics is generally valid whether the blackhole is a static or a non-static one. Considering the universe as a thermodynamical system the second law of blackhole dynamics extends to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-14 Nairwita Mazumder , Subenoy Chakraborty

In this paper, we investigate the validity of the generalized second law (GSL) of thermodynamics in flat FRW chameleon cosmology where the boundary of the universe is assumed to be enclosed by the dynamical apparent horizon. It has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 H. Farajollahi , A. Salehi , F. Tayebi

Modified gravity and generalized second law (GSL) of thermodynamics are interesting topics in the modern cosmology. In this regard, we investigate the GSL of gravitational thermodynamics in the framework of modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-22 A. Abdolmaleki , T. Najafi

The present work deals with a detailed study of universal thermodynamics in different modified gravity theories. The validity of the generalized second law of thermodynamics (GSLT) and thermodynamical equilibrium (TE) of the Universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-02 Saugata Mitra , Subhajit Saha , Subenoy Chakraborty

The generalized second law (GSL) of black hole thermodynamics asserts the monotonic increase of the generalized entropy combining the black hole area and the entropy of quantum fields outside the horizon. Modern proofs of the GSL rely on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-08 Antoine Rignon-Bret , Matthieu Vilatte

This paper is devoted to study the generalized second law of thermodynamics in $f(T)$ gravity. We use quantum corrections such as power-law and logarithmic corrected entropies to the horizon entropy along with Gibbs' equation in the thermal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-17 M. Sharif , Shamaila Rani

In this work, we study the generalized second law of thermodynamics (GSL) at the apparent horizon of an evolving Lorentzian wormhole. We obtain the expressions of thermal variables at the apparent horizon. Choosing the two well-known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-30 Tanwi Bandyopadhyay , Ujjal Debnath , Mubasher Jamil , Faiz-ur-Rahman , Ratbay Myrzakulov

The present study is motivated by the study of reference [1], where the generalized second law of thermodynamics has been investigated for a flat FRW universe for two viable models of $f(T)$ gravity. In the present work, we have considered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-22 Rahul Ghosh , Antonio Pasqua , Surajit Chattopadhyay

The present study is elaborated to investigate the validity of thermodynamical laws in a modified teleparallel gravity based on higher-order derivatives terms of torsion scalar. For this purpose, we consider spatially flat FRW model filled…

General Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Saira Waheed , M. Zubair

In this work, we have considered the magnetic universe in non-linear electrodynamics. The Einstein's field equations for non-flat FRW model have been considered when the universe is filled with the matter and magnetic field only. We have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Tanwi Bandyopadhyay , Ujjal Debnath

In this work, we have investigated the validity of GSL of thermodynamics in a universe (open, closed and flat) governed by Ho$\check{\text r}$ava-Lifshitz gravity. If the universe contains barotropic fluid the corresponding solutions have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-25 Samarpita Bhattacharya , Ujjal Debnath

We derive the generalized second law (GSL) for arbitrary cuts of Killing horizons from the perspective of crossed-product gravitational algebras, making use of a recent proposal by one of us for the construction of local gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-14 Thomas Faulkner , Antony J. Speranza

We investigate the validity of the Generalized Second Law (GSL) of thermodynamics in a $(2+1)$-dimensional holographic cosmological model with a negative cosmological constant. Adopting a horizon thermodynamics framework, we examine two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-20 Praveen Kumar Dhankar , Aritra Sanyal , Safiqul Islam , Farook Rahaman , Behnam Pourhassan

The generalized second law (GSL) of black hole thermodynamics states that the sum of changes in black hole entropy and the ordinary entropy of matter and fields outside the hole must be non-negative. In the classical limit, the GSL reduces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-28 Christopher Eling , Jacob D. Bekenstein

A classical and quantum mechanical generalized second law of thermodynamics in cosmology implies constraints on the effective equation of state of the universe in the form of energy conditions, obeyed by many known cosmological solutions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Ram Brustein

We investigate the validity of the generalized second law of thermodynamics in a universe governed by Horava-Lifshitz gravity. Under the equilibrium assumption, that is in the late-time cosmological regime, we calculate separately the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-28 Mubasher Jamil , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , M. R. Setare

The generalized second law can be used to prove a singularity theorem, by generalizing the notion of a trapped surface to quantum situations. Like Penrose's original singularity theorem, it implies that spacetime is null geodesically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Aron C. Wall

An equilibrium picture of thermodynamics is discussed at the apparent horizon of FRW universe in $f(T,T_G)$ gravity, where $T$ represents the torsion invariant and $T_G$ is the teleparallel equivalent of the Gauss-Bonnet term. It is found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-04 M. Zubair

In the framework of Fractional Action Cosmology (FAC), we study the generalized second law of thermodynamics for the Friedmann Universe enclosed by a boundary. We use the four well-known cosmic horizons as boundaries namely, apparent…

General Physics · Physics 2012-02-14 Ujjal Debnath , Mubasher Jamil , Surajit Chattopadhyay