Entropy production in the cosmological amplification of the vacuum fluctuations
Abstract
We estimate the entropy associated to a background of squeezed cosmic gravitons, and we argue that the process of cosmological pair production from the vacuum may explain the large amount of entropy of our present universe.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- March 1993
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:gr-qc/9301010
- Bibcode:
- 1993PhLB..301..334G
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, plain tex, to appear in Phys.Lett.B, DFTT-63/92