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The equations of motion describing all physical systems, except gravity, remain invariant if a constant is added to the Lagrangian. In the conventional approach, gravitational theories break this symmetry exhibited by all other physical…

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We investigate the generalized second law of thermodynamics (GSL) in generalized theories of gravity. We examine the total entropy evolution with time including the horizon entropy, the non-equilibrium entropy production, and the entropy of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Shao-Feng Wu , Bin Wang , Guo-Hong Yang , Peng-Ming Zhang

We consider the particle creation scenario in the dynamical Chern-Simons modified gravity in the presence of perfect fluid equation of state $p=(\gamma-1)\rho$. By assuming various modified entropies (Bekenstein, logarithmic, power law…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-15 Abdul Jawad , Shamaila Rani , Salman Rafique

In this paper, a new generalised gravity-matter coupled theory of gravity is presented. This theory is constructed by assuming an action with an arbitrary function $f(T,B,L_m)$ which depends on the scalar torsion $T$, the boundary term…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-24 Sebastian Bahamonde

In certain modified theories of gravity, non-minimal couplings between matter and geometry lead to the nonconservation of the energy-momentum tensor. By interpreting this as an effective dissipative process, we formulate a general class of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-27 Szőllősi Tamás-Géza

The emergent gravity paradigm interprets gravitational field equations as describing the thermodynamic limit of the underlying statistical mechanics of microscopic degrees of freedom of the spacetime. The connection is established by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-09 Sumanta Chakraborty , T. Padmanabhan

Here, we investigate the growth of matter density perturbations as well as the generalized second law (GSL) of thermodynamics in the framework of $f(R)$-gravity. We consider a spatially flat FRW universe filled with the pressureless matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-11 S. Asadzadeh , M. S. Khaledian , K. Karami

In this work, we review a plethora of modified theories of gravity with generalized curvature-matter couplings. The explicit nonminimal couplings, for instance, between an arbitrary function of the scalar curvature $R$ and the Lagrangian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-29 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We study the generalized second law (GSL) of thermodynamics in $f(T)$ cosmology. We consider the universe as a closed bounded system filled with $n$ component fluids in the thermal equilibrium with the cosmological boundary. We use two…

General Physics · Physics 2013-02-25 Kazuharu Bamba , Mubasher Jamil , D. Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

We explore the derivation of the Friedmann equations from a thermodynamic perspective, applying the unified first law of thermodynamics to the apparent horizon of a flat Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) universe. We extend this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-29 Víctor H. Cárdenas , Miguel Cruz , Samuel Lepe

Temperature is an outsider in the laws of motion given by Newton and Einstein and this oversight is the source of the predictions of time-reversal-invariance made by these two great systems of motion. By taking into consideration Planck's…

General Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 Randy Wayne

In this paper, we study the nonlinear electrodynamics in the framework of $f(T)$ gravity for FRW universe along with dust matter, magnetic and torsion contributions. We evaluate the equation of state and deceleration parameters to explore…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Sharif , Shamaila Rani

In this paper, the generalized second law (GSL) of thermodynamics and entropy is revisited in the context of cosmological models in Gauss-Bonnet gravity with the boundary of the universe is assumed to be enclosed by the dynamical apparent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Hossein Farajollahi , Amin Salehi

We study the relation between the thermodynamics and field equations of generalized gravity theories on the dynamical trapping horizon with sphere symmetry. We assume the entropy of dynamical horizon as the Noether charge associated with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Shao-Feng Wu , Xian-Hui Ge , Peng-Ming Zhang , Guo-Hong Yang

We derive a general formulation of the laws of irreversible thermodynamics in the presence of electromagnetism and gravity. For the handling of macroscopic material media, we use as a guide the field equations and the Noether identities of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-26 Romualdo Tresguerres

We consider cosmological scenarios based on $f(R,T)$ theories of gravity ($R$ is the Ricci scalar and $T$ is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor) and numerically reconstruct the function $f(R,T)$ which is able to reproduce the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 M. J. S. Houndjo , Oliver F. Piattella

In stochastic thermodynamics, the entropy production of a thermodynamic system is defined by the irreversibility measured by the logarithm of the ratio of the path probabilities in the forward and reverse processes. We derive the relation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-14 Hyun-Myung Chun , Jae Dong Noh

With the usual definitions for the entropy and the temperature associated with the apparent horizon, we discuss the first law of the thermodynamics on the apparent in the general scalar-tensor theory of gravity with the kinetic term of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-04 Yumei Huang , Yungui Gong

Generalized Probabilistic Theories (GPTs) provide a unified framework for describing probabilistic physical theories, encompassing classical and quantum theories as well as hypothetical theories beyond quantum mechanics. Since most GPTs are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Koki Ono , Shun Umekawa , Hiroyasu Tajima

We investigate reversible and irreversible thermodynamic processes in cosmology and their impact on the Hubble tension. Gravitationally induced adiabatic matter creation/annihilation is treated as irreversible, while energy exchange between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-12 Hussain Gohar