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We present a novel derivation of Einstein equations from the balance between Clausius entropy crossing the boundary of a local causal diamond and entanglement entropy associated with its horizon. Comparing this derivation with the…

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I show that the gravitational dynamics in a bulk region of space can be connected to a thermodynamic description in the boundary of that region, thereby providing clear physical interpretations of several mathematical features of classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 T. Padmanabhan

It is shown that linearized gravitational radiation confined in a cavity can achieve thermal equilibrium if the mean density of the radiation and the size of the cavity satisfy certain constraints.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Padmanabhan , T. P. Singh

The Lagrangian formulation of Gravitoelectromagnetism (GEM) theory is considered. GEM is a gravitational theory constructed based on the similarities between gravity and electromagnetism. In this framework, we investigate gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-20 L. A. S. Evangelista , A. F. Santos

We study the thermodynamical properties of a one-dimensional gas with one-dimensional gravitational interactions, and placed in a uniform mass background. Periodic boundary conditions are implemented as a modification of the potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-22 Pankaj Kumar , Bruce N. Miller , Dan Pirjol

Thermodynamics of local causal horizons have been shown to encode the information necessary to derive the equations governing the gravitational dynamics. We have previously shown that, in the presence of matter, this derivation further…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Ana Alonso-Serrano , Marek Liška

We extend the thermodynamic derivation of gravity in the Jacobson framework by generalizing the Clausius relation through a nontrivial entropy functional. We show that entropy deformations appear as modifications of the effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 H. R. Fazlollahi

There is a deep link between gravity and thermodynamics; in a precise way gravity can be derived from entanglement entropy in conformal field theories. However, this depends crucially on properties of horizons, and asymptotic symmetries of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-30 Ian Nagle

We revisit Jacobson's thermodynamic derivation of gravitational dynamics in the presence of generalized, non-extensive horizon entropies. Working within a local Rindler-wedge framework, we formulate the Clausius relation as the stationarity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-06 Marco Figliolia , Petr Jizba , Gaetano Lambiase

We use gauge/gravity duality to study the thermodynamics of a field theory with asymptotic freedom in the ultraviolet and a fixed point in the infrared. We find a high temperature quark-gluon phase and a low T conformal unparticle phase.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 J. Alanen , K. Kajantie

Spatially homogeneous thermal equilibria of self-gravitating gas, being impossible otherwise, are nevertheless allowed in an expanding background accounting for Universe's expansion. Furthermore, a fixed density at the boundary of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-13 Zacharias Roupas

The density of states of self-gravitational system diverges when the particles are spread to infinity. Other problem based an inhomogeneous distribution of particles,which motivate the gravitational interaction. In this sense the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-15 B. I. Lev

Present investigation devoted to the dynamical study of Relativistic Hydrodynamics with some thermodynamical characteristics in $f(R,G)$ gravity towards spatially homogeneous isotropic cosmological model filled with isotropic fluid. We…

General Physics · Physics 2020-04-09 S. H. Shekh , Simran Arora , V. R. Chirde , P. K. Sahoo

The presented paper is an attempt to investigate the dynamical states of an hydrodynamical isothermal turbulent self-gravitating system using some powerful tools of the classical thermodynamics. Our main assumption, inspired by the work of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-21 Sava Donkov , Ivan Zh. Stefanov , Todor V. Veltchev

The dynamical justifications which lie at the basis of an effective Statistical Mechanics for self gravitating systems are formulated, analyzing some among the well known obstacles thought to prevent a rigorous Statistical treatment. It is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Piero Cipriani , Marco Pettini

A principle on the macroscopic motion of systems in thermodynamic equilibrium, rarely discussed in texts, is reviewed: Very small but still macroscopic parts of a fully isolated system in thermal equilibrium move as if points of a rigid…

General Physics · Physics 2017-03-09 Juan R. Sanmartin

The self-gravitating systems are formed by particles interacting through gravity. They describe structure formation in the universe. As a consequence of the long range interaction of gravity, they are inhomogeneous even at thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julien Siebert

The microcanonical statistical mechanics of a set of self-gravitating particles is analyzed in mean-field approach. In order to deal with an upper bounded entropy functional, a softened gravitational potential is used. The softening is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Eduardo Follana , Victor Laliena

Recent work has shown that couplings multiplying individual terms in a Lagrangian can be promoted to conserved charges by introducing scalar-gauge pairs. The gravitational constant, however, plays a qualitatively different role: $G^{-1}$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-20 Wontae Kim , Mungon Nam

In the article it is shown that at presence of fundamental scalar fields determining the masses of the scalar charged particles the global thermodynamic equilibrium (GTE) is compatible with a process of the cosmological expansion of the…

General Physics · Physics 2014-10-10 Yurii Ignat'ev