Causal entropy bound for nonsingular cosmologies

Ram Brustein, Stefano Foffa, and Avraham E. Mayo
Phys. Rev. D 65, 024004 – Published 29 November 2001
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Abstract

The conditions for the validity of the causal entropy bound (CEB) are verified in the context of nonsingular cosmologies with classical sources. It is shown that they are the same conditions that were previously found to guarantee the validity of the CEB; the energy density of each dynamical component of the cosmic fluid needs to be sub-Planckian and not too negative, and its equation of state needs to be causal. In the examples we consider, the CEB is able to discriminate cosmologies which suffer from potential physical problems more reliably than the energy conditions appearing in singularity theorems.

  • Received 14 August 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.65.024004

©2001 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Ram Brustein* and Stefano Foffa

  • Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel

Avraham E. Mayo

  • The Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel

  • *Email address: ramyb@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
  • Email address: foffa@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
  • Email address: mayo@cc.huji.ac.il

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Vol. 65, Iss. 2 — 15 January 2002

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