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We consider a perfectly homogeneous and isotropic universe which undergoes a sudden phase transition. If the transition produces topological defects, which we assume, perturbations in the geometry and the cosmic fluid also suddenly appear.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Nathalie Deruelle , David Langlois , Jean-Philippe Uzan

The Universe is not isotropic or spatially homogeneous on local scales. The averaging of local inhomogeneities in general relativity can lead to significant dynamical effects on the evolution of the Universe, and even if the effects are at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-25 A. A. Coley

This article examines the cosmic evolution in the framework of symmetric teleparallel theory, characterized by the function of non-metricity scalar $(\mathcal{Q})$. We use the e-folding number and reconstruction method with a suitable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-14 M. Sharif , M. Zeeshan Gul , Nusrat Fatima

A thermodynamic description of cosmological spacetimes may provide insights into the fundamentals of the cosmic evolution that remain otherwise obscure, similar to `black hole thermodynamics'. We investigate the thermodynamic properties of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 Dipayan Mukherjee , Harkirat Singh Sahota , Swati Gavas

The research work in the thesis is focused on the thermodynamic analysis of cosmological models, especially the models that explain late-time cosmic acceleration. According to the cosmological principle, the universe is spatially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-05 Tanima Duary

The work deals with the thermodynamical aspects of the cosmic substratum which is dissipative in nature. For homogeneous and isotropic model of the Universe this dissipative phenomenon is effective bulk viscous pressure in nature and is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-04 Pritikana Bhandari , Sourav Haldar , Subenoy Chakraborty

Concepts of everyday use like energy, heat, and temperature have acquired a precise meaning after the development of thermodynamics. Thermodynamics provides the basis for understanding how heat and work are related and with the general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Reguera , J. M. Rubi , J. M. G. Vilar

Methods of dynamical systems have been used to study homogeneous and isotropic cosmological models with a varying speed of light (VSL). We propose two methods of reduction of dynamics to the form of planar Hamiltonian dynamical systems for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-07-22 Marek Szydlowski , Adam Krawiec

In this paper, we examine the thermodynamic features of an exotic fluid known as modified cosmic Chaplygin gas in the context of homogeneous isotropic universe model. For this purpose, the behavior of physical parameters are discussed that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-05 M. Sharif , Sara Ashraf

Point-like topological defects are singular configurations that occur in a variety of in and out of equilibrium systems with two-dimensional orientational order. As they are associated with a nonzero circuitation condition, the presence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-13 Jacopo Romano , Benoît Mahault , Ramin Golestanian

We consider thermodynamics of the Universe within a quasiparticle approach where the collective dynamics of a system is governed by the thermal mass of the constituents. The spacetime dependence of this thermal mass leads to a negative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-30 Amaresh Jaiswal

Cosmic voids have emerged as powerful probes for cosmology, providing complementary information on the large-scale structure of the universe. We present the first application of a hydrodynamical framework to model the evolution of cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-23 Tommaso Moretti , Giovanni Verza , Noemi Frusciante , Francesco Pace

The effect of bulk viscisity on the evolution of the homogeneous and isotropic cosmological models is considered. Solutions are found, with a barotropic equation of state, and a viscosity coefficient that is proportional to a power of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Pimentel L O , Diaz-Rivera L M

(To appear in Nuclear Physics B Supplements Proceedings section) This talk will explore the evolution of topological defects in an open universe. The rapid expansion of the universe in an open model slows defects and suppresses the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 David N. Spergel , Ue-Li Pen

We provide a general overview of the velocity-dependent one-scale model for cosmic string evolution and discuss two further extensions to it. We introduce and justify a new ansatz for the momentum parameter $k$, and also incorporate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 C. J. A. P. Martins , E. P. S. Shellard

We analyze the effect of higher order viscosity corrections in a spatially homogeneous and isotropic universe. The viscous effects are modeled by introducing a second-order term to the energy density in the equation of state and on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-19 A. G. Cesar , Mario Novello

We study the perturbed equation of state (EOS) parameters of the cosmological tachyonic scalar field components and their mutual time-dependent interaction. It is shown that the discrete temperature-dependent pattern of the EOS emerges from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-01 Murli Manohar Verma , Shankar Dayal Pathak

It is shown that topological changes in space-time are necessary to make General Relativity compatible with the Newtonian limit and to solve the hierarchy of the fundamental interactions. We detail how topology and topological changes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-10 M. D. Maia

This article examines how the physical presence of field energy and particulate matter can be interpreted in terms of the topological properties of space-time. The theory is developed in terms of vector and matrix equations of exterior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-12-10 R. M. Kiehn

We examine the dependence of a thermodynamic potential of a fluid on the geometry of its container. If motion invariance, continuity, and additivity of the potential are fulfilled, only four morphometric measures are needed to describe…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 P. -M. König , R. Roth , K. R. Mecke