Relic gravitons and viscous cosmologies

Details Relic gravitons and viscous cosmologies Relic gravitons and viscous cosmologies

2006-10-16

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610181v1

Phys.Lett.B642:5-8,2006

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physletb.2006.08.074

Previously it was shown that there exists a class of viscous cosmological models which violate the dominant energy condition for a limited amount of time after which they are smoothly connected to the ordinary radiation era (which preserves the dominant energy conditions). This violation of the dominant energy condition at an early cosmological epoch may influence the slopes of energy spectra of relic gravitons that might be of experimental relevance. However, the bulk viscosity coefficient of these cosmologies became negative during the ordinary radiation era, and then the entropy of the sources driving the geometry decreases with time. We show that in the presence of viscous sources with a linear barotropic equation of state $p=\gamma \rho$ we get viscous cosmological models with positive bulk viscous stress during all their evolution, and hence the matter entropy increases with the expansion time. In other words, in the framework of viscous cosmologies, there exist isotropic models compatible with the standard second law of thermodynamics which also may influence the slopes of energy spectra of relic gravitons.

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