English
Related papers

Related papers: Thermodynamics of homogeneous Universes: de Sitter…

200 papers

The de Sitter state and the static Einstein Universe are unique states that have a constant scalar Ricci curvature ${\cal R}$. It was shown earlier that such a unique symmetry of the de Sitter state leads to special thermodynamic properties…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 G. E. Volovik

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-22 T. Padmanabhan

Physical spacetime geometry follows from some effective thermodynamics of quantum states of all fields and particles described in frames of General Relativity. In the sense of pure field theoretical Einstein's point of view on gravitation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-08-27 L. A. Glinka

A new thermodynamics of scalar-tensor gravity is applied to spatially homogeneous and isotropic cosmologies in this class of theories and tested on analytical solutions. A forever-expanding universe approaches the Einstein "state of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-06 Serena Giardino , Valerio Faraoni , Andrea Giusti

The general thermodynamic analysis of the quantum vacuum, which is based on our knowledge of the vacua in condensed-matter systems, is consistent with the Einstein earlier view on the cosmological constant. In the equilibrium Universes the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. E. Volovik

In this paper we show how a gravitational field generated by a given energy-momentum distribution (for all realistic cases) can be represented by distinct geometrical structures (Lorentzian, teleparallel and non null nonmetricity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 Waldyr A. Rodrigues

The entire classical cosmological history between two extreme de Sitter vacuum solutions is discussed based on Einstein's equations and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. The initial non-singular de Sitter state is characterised by a very high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 P. E. M. Almeida , R. C. Santos , J. A. S. Lima

The condensed matter analogs are useful for consideration of the phenomena related to the quantum vacuum. This is because in condensed matter we know physics both in the infrared and in the ultraviolet limits, while in particle physics and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 G. E. Volovik

Starting with a field theoretic approach in Minkowski space, the gravitational energy momentum tensor is derived from the Einstein equations in a straightforward manner. This allows to present them as {\it acceleration tensor} = const.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen

We discuss phenomenology of quantum vacuum. Phenomenology of macroscopic systems has three sources: thermodynamics, topology and symmetry. Momentum space topology determines the universality classes of fermionic vacua. The vacuum in its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-08 G. E. Volovik

Thermodynamical Behaviour of Inhomogeneous Universe with Varying $ \Lambda $ in Presence of Electromagnetic Field is obtained. $ F_{12} $ is the non-vanishing component of electromagnetic field tensor. To get a deterministic solution, it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-22 Anil Kumar Yadav

Here we consider our universe as inhomogeneous spherically symmetric Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi Model and analyze the thermodynamics of this model of the universe. The trapping horizon is calculated and is found to coincide with the apparent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-09 Subenoy Chakraborty , Nairwita Mazumder , Ritabrata Biswas

We suggest the possibility that the mysterious dark energy component driving the acceleration of the Universe is the leading term, in the de Sitter temperature, of the free energy density of space-time seen as a quantum gravity coherent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-03 Luciano Vanzo

We describe a one-dimensional self-gravitating system derived from the problem of large-scale structure formation in cosmology. Considering small times so that the expansion can be neglected we present a thermodynamical analysis of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Patrick Valageas

We observe that the standard homogeneous cosmologies, those of Minkowski, de Sitter, and anti-de Sitter, which form the matrix for the Robertson--Walker scale factor, live naturally as isolated points inside a larger family of conformally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-19 Jonathan Holland , George Sparling

We consider the local physics of an open quantum system embedded in an expanding three-dimensional space $\mathbf x$, evolving in cosmological time $t$, weakly coupled to a massless quantum field. We derive the corresponding Markovian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-22 Robert Alicki , Gabriela Barenboim , Alejandro Jenkins

Production of gravitational vacuum defects and their contribution to the energy density of our Universe are discussed. These topological microstructures (defects) could be produced in the result of creation of the Universe from "nothing"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-03 V. Burdyuzha , G. Vereshkov , J. Pacheco

A scalar-tensor theory of gravity is formulated in which $G$ and particle masses are allowed to vary. The theory yields a globally static cosmological model with no evolutionary timescales, no cosmological coincidences, and no flatness and…

General Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 Meir Shimon

We consider the energetics and thermodynamics of spacetimes with no horizons, but endowed with a preferred timelike junction surface. They could arise as a limiting case of the gravastar and other constructions regularizing the interior of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Raymond Isichei , João Magueijo

Homogeneous and isotropic, nonsingular, bouncing world models are designed to evade the initial singularity at the beginning of the cosmic expansion. Here, we study the thermodynamics of the subset of these models governed by general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-09 Pedro C. Ferreira , Diego Pavon
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›