Geometrothermodynamic Cosmology


Por: Luongo, Orlando, Quevedo, Hernando

Publicada: 1 ene 2023
Resumen:
We review the main aspects of geometrothermodynamics, a formalism that uses contact geometry and Riemannian geometry to describe the properties of thermodynamic systems. We show how to handle in a geometric way the invariance of classical thermodynamics with respect to Legendre transformations, which means that the properties of the systems do not depend on the choice of the thermodynamic potential. Moreover, we show that, in geometrothermodynamics, it is possible to apply a variational principle to generate thermodynamic fundamental equations, which can be used in the context of relativistic cosmology to generate cosmological models. As a particular example, we consider a fundamental equation that relates the entropy with the internal energy and the volume of the Universe, and construct cosmological models with arbitrary parameters, which can be fixed to reproduce the main aspects of the inflationary era and the standard cosmological paradigm. © 2023 by the authors.

Filiaciones:
Luongo, Orlando:
 Scuola di Scienze e Tecnologie, Università di Camerino, Via Madonna delle Carceri 9, Camerino, 62032, Italy

 SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Utica, NY 13502, United States

 INFN, Sezione di Perugia, Perugia, 06123, Italy

 INAF—Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Milano, 20121, Italy

 NNLOT, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Al-Farabi av. 71, Almaty, 050040, Kazakhstan

Quevedo, Hernando:
 Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, AP 70543, Ciudad de México, 04510, Mexico

 Dipartimento di Fisica and ICRANet, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma, 00185, Italy
ISSN: 10994300
Editorial
MDPI AG, KANDERERSTRASSE 25, CH-4057 BASEL, SWITZERLAND, Suiza
Tipo de documento: Review
Volumen: 25 Número: 7
Páginas:
WOS Id: 001036017400001
ID de PubMed: 37509984
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