Renormalization-group running cosmologies and the generalized second law

dc.creatorHorvat, R.
dc.date2007-02-15
dc.date2007-03-22
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dc.descriptionWe explore some thermodynamical consequences of accelerated universes driven by a running cosmological constant (CC) from the renormalization group (RG). Application of the generalized second law (GSL) of gravitational thermodynamics to a framework where the running of the CC goes at the expense of energy transfer between vacuum and matter, strongly restricts the mass spectrum of a (hypothetical) theory controlling the CC running. We find that quantum effects driving the running of the CC should be dominated by a trans-planckian mass field, in marked contrast with the GUT-scale upper mass bound obtained by analyzing density perturbations for the running CC. The model shows compliance with the holographic principle.
dc.description8 pages, final version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0702087
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0702087
dc.identifierPhys.Lett.B648:374-377,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.physletb.2007.03.037
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/188035
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleRenormalization-group running cosmologies and the generalized second law
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