Entropy Production and Cosmological Inflation

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dc.creatorSakai, T.
dc.creatorWidom, A.
dc.creatorSrivastava, Y. N.
dc.date1999-10-28
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:33:39Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:33:39Z
dc.descriptionThe notion of inflation (past or present) in standard cosmological models is shown to be a consequence of a sufficiently high second law entropy production from the internal heating of the universal expansion. The longitudinal viscous internal heating of matter requires neither ``inflaton'' fields nor ``quintessence'' fields which in theory may induce a cosmological term into the Einstein equations. The purely thermodynamic principles required to understand inflation within the context of the standard general relativity equations will be discussed in detail.
dc.description5 Pages, ReVTeX, 1 figure
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9910102
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9910102
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/36659
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleEntropy Production and Cosmological Inflation
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