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We show that it is possible to obtain a picture of equilibrium thermodynamics on the apparent horizon in the expanding cosmological background for a wide class of modified gravity theories with the Lagrangian density $f(R, \phi, X)$, where…

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Horizon thermodynamics is expected to be related to the effective energy based on the energy density calculated from the Friedmann equation for a Friedmann--Robertson--Walker (FRW) universe. In the present study, the effective energy and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-07 Nobuyoshi Komatsu

Classical black holes and event horizons are highly non-local objects, defined in terms of the causal past of future null infinity. Alternative, (quasi)local definitions are often used in mathematical, quantum, and numerical relativity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Ivan Booth , Stephen Fairhurst

The expansion law proposed by Padmanabhan suggests that the evolution of the volume of the horizon is due to the difference between the degrees of freedom on the horizon and the degrees of freedom in the bulk enclosed by the horizon. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-04 Muhsinath. M , Hassan Basari V. T. , Titus K. Mathew

The various roles of boundary terms in the gravitational Lagrangian and Hamiltonian are explored. A symplectic Hamiltonian-boundary-term approach is ideally suited for a large class of quasilocal energy-momentum expressions for general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Chiang-Mei Chen , James M. Nester

Gravity, and the puzzle regarding its energy, can be understood from a gauge theory perspective. Gravity, i.e., dynamical spacetime geometry, can be considered as a local gauge theory of the symmetry group of Minkowski spacetime: the…

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We present a kind of generalized Vaidya solutions in a generic Lovelock gravity. This solution generalizes the simple case in Gauss-Bonnet gravity reported recently by some authors. We study the thermodynamics of apparent horizon in this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-30 Rong-Gen Cai , Li-Ming Cao , Ya-Peng Hu , Sang Pyo Kim

We extend the quasilocal (metric-based) Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity so that it may be used to study regions of spacetime with null boundaries. In particular we use this generalized Brown-York formalism to study the physics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ivan S. Booth

We initiate the development of a horizon-based initial (or rather final) value formalism to describe the geometry and physics of the near-horizon spacetime: data specified on the horizon and a future ingoing null boundary determine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-31 Sharmila Gunasekaran , Ivan Booth

We propose a cosmological model in which the expansion of the universe is driven by a Hawking-like influx of energy across the cosmological horizon, rather than from a fixed cosmological constant. In place of a cosmological constant, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-06 Aman Singh

The covariant entropy bound conjecture is an important hint for the quantum gravity, with several versions available in the literature. For cosmology, Ashtekar and Wilson-Ewing ever show the consistence between the loop gravity theory and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 Li-Fang Li , Jian-Yang Zhu

It is well known that the Euclidean black hole action has a boundary term at the horizon proportional to the area. I show that if the horizon is replaced by a stretched horizon with appropriate boundary conditions, a new boundary term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-15 S. Carlip

Previously, the Raychaudhuri equation and the focusing theorem in General Relativity were generalised to diffeomorphism-invariant theories of gravity coupled to scalar and vector fields on linearly perturbed Killing horizons. The Wall…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-28 Zihan Yan

Thermodynamic interpretations of gravity often arise from applying the Clausius relation to spacetime horizons. In modified gravity theories with higher-order equations of motion, such as f(R) and scalar-tensor gravity, this relation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Vishnu A Pai , Vishnu S Namboothiri , Titus K Mathew

Starting from the Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) theory and using an inverse approach, we construct a general form of the entropy expression associated with the horizon based on the entropic nature of gravity. Using the…

General Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Ahamd Sheykhi , Leila Liravi

For general metric theories of gravity, we compare the approach that describes-derives the field equations of gravity as a thermodynamic identity with the one which looks at them from entropy bounds. The comparison is made through the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-28 Alessandro Pesci

Taking account of the thermal nature of the Hubble horizon of the expanding universe, we analysed the evolution of relative fluctuations of horizon energy. For this analysis, we used two approaches: (i) by treating the Hubble horizon as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Vishnu S Namboothiri , Krishna P B , Adithya P S , Titus K Mathew

We show that the spherically symmetric isolated horizon can be described in terms of an SU(2) connection and a su(2) valued one form, obeying certain constraints. The horizon symplectic structure is precisely the one of 3d gravity in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-19 Daniele Pranzetti , Hanno Sahlmann

We show that a surface term should be added to the Einstein-Hilbert action in order to properly describe quantum transitions occurring around a black hole. The introduction of this boundary term has been advocated by Teitelboim and…

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