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We conjecture a novel Generalized Second Law that can be applied in cosmology, regardless of whether an event horizon is present: the generalized entropy increases monotonically outside of certain hypersurfaces we call past Q-screens. A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Raphael Bousso , Netta Engelhardt

We apply the generalized second law of thermodynamics to discriminate among quantum corrections (whether logarithmic or power-law) to the entropy of the apparent horizon in spatially Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes. We use the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Ninfa Radicella , Diego Pavón

The study of black hole thermodynamics becomes a central topic in gravitational physics, where the first law and the Smarr relation establish a deep connection between spacetime geometry and thermodynamic laws. As we know, these relations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-04 Usman Zafar , Krishnakanta Bhattacharya , Kazuharu Bamba

In this paper we have examined the validity of the generalized second law of thermodynamics (GSLT) in an expanding Friedmann Robertson Walker (FRW) universe filled with different variants of Chaplygin gases. Assuming that the universe is a…

General Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Samarjit Chakraborty , Sarbari Guha

We derive the modified Friedmann equation corresponding to the power-law corrected entropy-area relation $S_{\rm A}=\frac{A}{4}[1-K_{\alpha} A^{1-\frac{\alpha}{2}}]$ which is motivated by the entanglement of quantum fields in and out of the…

General Physics · Physics 2011-09-07 K. Karami , A. Abdolmaleki , N. Sahraei , S. Ghaffari

The generalized second law of thermodynamics states that entropy always increases when all event horizons are attributed with an entropy proportional to their area. We test the generalized second law by investigating the change in entropy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tamara M. Davis , P. C. W. Davies , Charles H. Lineweaver

Late-time cosmic acceleration has motivated the exploration of various extensions of general relativity, among which $f(Q,\mathcal{T})$ gravity, based on the non-metricity scalar $Q$ and the trace of the energy--momentum tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 Anirudh Pradhan , A. Husain , M. Zeyauddin , S. H. Shekh

Applying Clausius relation with energy-supply defined by the unified first law of thermodynamics formalism to the apparent horizon of a massive cosmological model proposed lately, the corrected entropic formula of the apparent horizon is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-19 Hui Li , Yi Zhang

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

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

We explore the validity of the generalized second law (GSL) of thermodynamics in flat FRW universe with apparent horizon and event horizon as the boundary. We found that in a universe with holographic Ricci dark energy and dark matter,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-13 Titus K Mathew , P. Praseetha

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

We investigate the unified first law and the generalized second law in a modified holographic dark energy model. The thermodynamical analysis on the apparent horizon can work and the corresponding entropy formula is extracted from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Hui Li , Yi Zhang

The investigation of modifications to the FLRW cosmology resulting from the consideration of a general entropy for the cosmological apparent horizon is the subject of this study. Building upon the work of Nojiri and collaborators in 2022,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 A. Khodam-Mohammadi , M. Monshizadeh

Adopting the thin-layer improved brick-wall method, we investigate the thermodynamics of a black hole embedded in a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe. We calculate the temperature and the entropy at every apparent horizon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-07 Khireddine Nouicer

The thermodynamics of the Universe is restudied by requiring its compatibility with the holographic-style gravitational equations which govern the dynamics of both the cosmological apparent horizon and the entire Universe, and possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-29 David Wenjie Tian , Ivan Booth

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

Based on the fractional black hole entropy (Jalalzadeh S. et al., Eur. Phys. J. C, 81 (2021) 632), we derive the modified Friedmann equations from two different frameworks. First, we consider the modifications of Friedmann equations from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Zeynep Çoker , Özgür Ökcü , Ekrem Aydiner

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

We investigate the first law of thermodynamics and entropy associated to the apparent horizon of (non-flat) FLRW space-time in different theories of modified gravity and in the presence of a perfect fluid of matter. We pose our attention on…

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