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Barrow Cosmology and Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-12-04 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Using thermodynamics-gravity conjecture, we present the formal derivation of the modified Friedmann equations inspired by the Barrow entropy, SA1+δ/2S\sim A ^{1+\delta/2}, where 0δ10\leq\delta\leq 1 is the Barrow exponent and AA is the horizon area. We then constrain the exponent δ\delta by using Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) observational data. In order to impose the upper bound on the Barrow exponent δ\delta, we set the observational bound on δTfTf\left| \frac{\delta T_f} {T_f }\right|. We find out that the Barrow parameter δ\delta should be around δ0.01 \delta \simeq 0.01 in order not to spoil the BBN era. Next we derive the bound on the Barrow exponent δ\delta in a different approach in which we analyze the effects of Barrow cosmology on the primordial abundances of light elements i.e. Helium 4He_{}^{4}\textit{He}, Deuterium DD and Lithium 7Li_{}^{7}\textit{Li}. We observe that the deviation from standard Bekenstein-Hawking expression is small as expected. Additionally we present the relation between cosmic time tt and temperature TT in the context of modified Barrow cosmology. We confirm that the temperature of the early universe increases as the Barrow exponent δ\delta (fractal structure of the horizon) increases, too.

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@article{arxiv.2411.06075,
  title  = {Barrow Cosmology and Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis},
  author = {Ahmad Sheykhi and Ava Shahbazi Sooraki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.06075},
  year   = {2025}
}

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9 pages, 5 figures

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