Cosmological Model with a Time-Dependent Equation of State in a Kaluza–Klein Metric

A homogeneous cosmological model in Kaluza–Klein metric is obtained assuming a time-dependent equation of state. The solution is in fact generalization of an earlier work by Hajj and Boutros for a perfect fluid. It is also found that dimensional reduction of the extra space takes place such that the five-dimensional universe naturally evolves into an effective four-dimensional one. The dynamical behaviour of the model is examined and it is also found that with a decrease in extra space the observable three-dimensional space entropy increase thus accounting for the large value of entropy observable at present.     

Higher dimensional cosmological model with a time-dependent equation of state

A homogeneous cosmological model in higher dimension is obtained assuming a timedependent equation of state. It is observed that as usual 3-D space expands, extra space (space belonging to the other dimensions) reduces with time, thus exhibiting the desired feature of dimensional reduction. The dynamical behavior of the model is examined and it is noted that with a decrease in extra space the observable 3-D space entropy increase, thus accounting for the large value of entropy observable at present.     

Five-dimensional cosmological model with a time-dependent equation of state in Wesson’s theory

Exact solution for a homogeneous cosmological model in 5D space-time-mass gravity theory proposed by Wesson (Astron. Astrophys. 119:145, 1983) is obtained by assuming the time-dependent equation of state. The behavior of the solution is discussed for the two cases k<0 and k=0. It is found that the observed constancy of the rest mass of an isolated particle in the present era may be interpreted as a consequence of the decreasing rate of change of rest mass with time. Moreover, a spontaneous compactification-like phenomenon of an extra dimension takes place in the case of k=0. It is also found that with decrease in extra space the observable three-dimensional space entropy increases, thus accounting for the large value of entropy observable at present.     

Viscous fluid in a kaluza-klein metric

Exact solutions are obtained in a five-dimensional space-time with an energy-momentum tensor containing a viscous fluid, assuming either an equation of state or a special form for the viscous term in line with the assumption of Belinskii and Khalatnikov (1977). The solutions are, in fact, generalizations of an earlier work by Grøn for a perfect fluid in the 5D rest-mass varying theory of gravity proposed recently by Wesson. It is found that dimensional reduction of the extra space takes place in some of the cases such that the 5-dimensional universe naturally evolves into an effective 4-dimensional one. A huge amount of entropy can be produced following this shrinkage of extra-dimension which may account for the very large value of entropy per baryon observed in our 4D world. Moreover, the observed constancy of the rest-mass in the present era is also interpreted.     

Dynamical system analysis of a five-dimensional cosmological model

A five-dimensional cosmological model including a single perfect fluid is studied in the framework of dynamical system analysis. All the critical points of the system are listed with their stability properties and some representative phase diagrams are explicitly shown. It is found that the stabilization of extra dimension is possible and the observed flatness of the three-dimensional space is provided for certain ranges of the equation of state parameter of the fluid. The model suggested here can be considered as a simplified model for examining the possible effects of the extra dimensions in the early universe.     

Higher dimensional inhomogeneous cosmological models in Lyra geometry

We have presented in homogeneous cosmological models within the framework of Lyra geometry. We have considered an inhomogeneous spherically symmetric higher dimensional model in presence of a mass less scalar field whose potential has a flat part. The scalar field is considered to be inhomogeneous. Also an inhomogeneous cosmological model is derived in a Kaluza-Klein type of space time. The matter field is taken as an inhomogeneous distribution of fluid. It is observed that there is no singularity at finite past in our model and the desirable feature of dimensional reduction is also possible for the extra space. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Spacetime dimensionality and logarithmic prefactor in the black hole entropy relation

We study the relation between the existence of the logarithmic prefactor and spacetime dimensionality in black hole entropy relation by a detailed study of a TeV-scale black hole entropy. In a model universe with large extra dimensions and within the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) framework, we show that probability of black hole production in the Large Hadronic Collider (LHC) decreases for sufficiently large values of the GUP parameter. In this regard, even observation of micro-black holes may be suppressed at TeV energy scale. We determine also the GUP parameter in an extra dimensional scenario by comparing black hole entropy calculated within the GUP and loop quantum gravity frameworks.     

Natural entropy production in an inflationary model for a polarized vacuum

Though entropy production is forbidden in standard FRW Cosmology, Berman and Som presented a simple inflationary model where entropy production by bulk viscosity, during standard inflation without ad hoc pressure terms can be accommodated with Robertson–Walker’s metric, so the requirement that the early Universe be anisotropic is not essential in order to have entropy growth during inflationary phase, as we show. Entropy also grows due to shear viscosity, for the anisotropic case. The intrinsically inflationary metric that we propose can be thought of as defining a polarized vacuum, and leads directly to the desired effects without the need of introducing extra pressure terms.     

Relativistic Rotational Darkening of Lightlike Radiation and Von Zeipel's Theorem for Radially Emitting Spheroids

It is shown that an outgoing null radiation field in the outer space of a Kerr-Newman black hole is darkened by the rotation of the black hole. This rotational darkening is calculated for a spheroid emitting null radiation normally to its surface, yielding the von Zeipel-like effectthat the equatorial region is darkened more strongly than the polar regions.This effect is not confined to the case of black holes but is also observable for relativistically rotating fluid spheroids such as atmospheres of pulsars or neutron stars. Moreover, application to Hawking radiation suggests that the black hole cannot be viewed as a classical black body but that the Hawking radiationis a global geometric effect. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Entropy of viscous Universe models

The cosmological event horizon entropy and the apparent horizon entropy of the ΛCDM and the Bianchi type I Universe model with viscosity has been calculated numerically, and analytically in the large time limit. It is shown that for these Universe models the cosmological event horizon entropy increases with time and for large times it approaches a finite maximum value. The effect of viscosity upon the entropy is also studied and we have found that its role is to decrease the entropy. The bigger the viscosity coefficient is the less the entropy will be. Furthermore, the radiation entropy for the ΛCDM Universe model with and without viscosity is investigated, and together with the cosmological event horizon entropy are used to examine the validity of the generalized second law of thermodynamics, which states that the total rate of change of entropy of the Universe is never negative, in this Universe model.     

Dynamical instability of laminar axisymmetric flows of ideal fluid with stratification

The instability of nonhomentropic axisymmetric flows of ideal fluid with respect to two-dimensional infinitesimal perturbations with the nonconservation of angular momentum is investigated by numerically integrating the differential equations of hydrodynamics. This problem is important in studying the dynamics of astrophysical flows as shear fluid flows around a gravitating center. A complex influence of a nonzero entropy gradient on the instability of sonic and surface gravity modes has been found. In particular, both an increase and a decrease in entropy against the effective gravity g _eff causes the growth of surface gravity modes that are stable at the same parameters for a homentropic flow. At the same time, the growth rate of the sonic instability branches either monotonically increases with increasing rate of decrease in entropy against g _eff or becomes zero at both negative and positive entropy gradients in the unperturbed flow. Calculations also show that growing internal gravity modes appear in the problem with free boundaries under consideration only if the flow is no longer stable with respect to axisymmetric perturbations. In addition, we show that it is improper to specify the entropy distribution in the main flow by a polytropic law with a polytropic index different from the adiabatic value, since the perturbation field does not satisfy the boundary condition at a free boundary in this case.     

A Kinetic Model of Coronal Heating and Acceleration by Ion-Cyclotron Waves: Preliminary Results

We present a kinetic model of the heating and acceleration of coronal protons by outward-propagating ion-cyclotron waves on open, radial magnetic flux tubes. In contrast to fluid models which typically insist on bi-Maxwellian distributions and which spread the wave energy and momentum over the entire proton population, this model follows the kinetic evolution of the collisionless proton distribution function in response to the combination of the resonant wave-particle interaction and external forces. The approximation is made that pitch-angle scattering by the waves is faster than all other processes, resulting in proton distributions which are uniform over the resonant surfaces in velocity space. We further assume, in this preliminary version, that the waves are dispersionless so these resonant surfaces are portions of spheres centered on the radial sum of the Alfvén speed and the proton bulk speed. We incorporate the fact that only those protons with radial speeds less than the bulk speed will be resonant with outward-propagating waves, so this rapid interaction acts only on the sunward half of the distribution. Despite this limitation, we find that the strong perpendicular heating of the resonant particles, coupled with the mirror force, results in substantial outward acceleration of the entire distribution. The proton distribution evolves towards an incomplete shell in velocity space, and appears vastly different from the distributions assumed in fluid models. Evidence of these distinctive distributions should be observable by instruments on Solar Probe.     

Vaidya black hole in non-stationary de Sitter space: Hawking’s temperature

In this paper we present a class of non-stationary solutions of Einstein’s field equations describing embedded Vaidya-de Sitter black holes with a cosmological variable function Λ(u). The Vaidya-de Sitter black hole is interpreted as the radiating Vaidya black hole is embedded into the non-stationary de Sitter space with variable Λ(u). The energy-momentum tensor of the Vaidya-de Sitter black hole is expressed as the sum of the energy-momentum tensors of the Vaidya null fluid and that of the non-stationary de Sitter field, and satisfies the energy conservation law. We study the energy conditions (like weak, strong and dominant conditions) for the energy-momentum tensor. We find the violation of the strong energy condition due to the negative pressure and leading to a repulsive gravitational force of the matter field associated with Λ(u) in the space-time. We also find that the time-like vector field for an observer in the Vaidya-de Sitter space is expanding, accelerating, shearing and non-rotating. It is also found that the space-time geometry of non-stationary Vaidya-de Sitter solution with variable Λ(u) is Petrov type D in the classification of space-times. We also find the Vaidya-de Sitter black hole radiating with a thermal temperature proportional to the surface gravity and entropy also proportional to the area of the cosmological black hole horizon.     

The signature of string ball near surface horizon of cylindrical Universe

The correspondence principle offered a unique opportunity to test cylindrically symmetric model for Universe at correspondence point “the centre of mass energies around (M _s/(g _s)²)”. First by using this symmetry, the Universe state for highly excited string “string ball” is studied and the entropy of these states is calculated. Then, to consider the string ball states, a copy of the original Hilbert space is constructed with a set of creation/annihilation operators that have the same commutation properties as the original ones. The total Hilbert space is the tensor product of the two spaces H _physical ?H _unphysical , where in this case H _physical denotes the physical quantum state space of the string ball. It is shown that string ball states can be represented by a maximally entangled two-mode squeezed state of the physical and unphysical spaces of string. Also, the entropy for these string states is calculated. It is found that Universe entropy matches the string entropy at transition point. This means that our result is consistent with correspondence principle and thus cylindrically symmetric model works. Finally the signature of bosonic string ball is studied. When string balls are produced, they evaporate to Massive particles like Higgs boson. Then Higgs bosons decay to quarks and gluons. Thus an enhancement of these partons can be a signature of bosonic string ball inside the cylindrically symmetric Universe.     

Bulk viscosity,Kaluza-Klein models and inflation

In this work we have employed two hypotheses which have been separately used in order to try to solve the horizon problem, the first one is to take a Kaluza-Klein cosmological model withd noncompact andD compact space-like dimensions, in particular we considerD=1, the second one is to use an energy-momentum tensor depicting a fluid out of equilibrium, in particular we take a mixture of two gases, one is formed by relativistic particles and the other one is a gas constituted by non-relativistic particles and they are not in thermodynamical equilibrium, such that a bulk viscosity term arises. Without actually solving the Einstein equations, we prove that the scale factor of the non-compact space is a monotonic increasing function of time, and that if the scale factor of the compact space reaches a maximum at a certain time then the non-compact space is driven to expand rapidly, and, therefore, hinting us about the possibility of solving the horizon problem.The effective pressure and density in the non-compact space are found and it is proved that they satisfy the condition for having generalized inflation, and, therefore, might permit to solve the horizon problem, even in the case ofD=1, there is no need of a large number of extra dimensions, as some other previous authors have found.Despite our higher-dimensional matter is one in which the kinetic approach is valid, the effective tensor in the non-compact space-time has the property that this treatment is not applicable.Supported in part by CONACYT grant P228CCOX891723, and DGICSA SEP grant C90-03-03447.     

A perturbed red-giant model

A Population II, 1.3M , pre-helium flash, red-giant model is investigated with respect to the influence of inclusion of relativistic gas characteristics, i.e., the equations of state, entropy, specific heats, and the adiabatic gradient. Little change is found in the observable properties of the model, but slightly large changes are found in the interior properties, the most important of which is the narrowing of the already thin radiative zone between the hydrogen burning shell and the extensive outer convective envelope from 9.6 to 8.0 density scale heights.     

Effects of electromagnetic field on the stability of locally isotropic gravastars

We have studied a new solution of charged gravastars with isotropic matter configuration in the framework of f(R, T) theory of gravity. For this purpose, we have assumed the electric charge as a constant. This stellar structure divided into three different regions: The preliminary part shows the interior charged region in which pressure equals to the negative density, second is the intermediate charged shell which is assumed to be very thin and filled with ultrarelativistic stiff fluid and the last corresponds to the electrovacuum region which is defined by an exterior Reissner-Nordström solution. Under these assumptions, we have found some physical aspects like length, energy, entropy and equation of state for charged spherical gravastar distribution. Moreover, we present an exact solution that free from event horizon and non-singular for this our new model.     

Five dimensional bulk viscous cosmological model with wet dark fluid in general relativity

In this paper, we have constructed a five dimensional LRS Bianchi type I cosmological model with wet dark fluid (WDF) in general relativity with the matter field described as bulk viscosity. It is found that in presence of bulk viscosity an inflationary effective stiff fluid cosmological model is obtained, whereas in absence of bulk viscosity the wet dark fluid degenerate to stiff fluid. Some physical and geometrical properties of the model are also discussed.     

The entropy and energy of intergalactic gas in galaxy clusters

Studies of the X-ray surface brightness profiles of clusters, coupled with theoretical considerations, suggest that the breaking of self-similarity in the hot gas results from an 'entropy floor', established by some heating process, which affects the structure of the intracluster gas strongly in lower-mass systems. By fitting analytical models for the radial variation in gas density and temperature to X-ray spectral images from the ROSAT PSPC and ASCA GIS, we have derived gas entropy profiles for 20 galaxy clusters and groups. We show that, when these profiles are scaled such that they should lie on top of one another in the case of self-similarity, the lowest-mass systems have higher-scaled entropy profiles than more massive systems. This appears to be due to a baseline entropy of depending on the extent to which shocks have been suppressed in low-mass systems. The extra entropy may be present in all systems, but is detectable only in poor clusters, where it is significant compared with the entropy generated by gravitational collapse. This excess entropy appears to be distributed uniformly with radius outside the central cooling regions.
We determine the energy associated with this entropy floor, by studying the net reduction in binding energy of the gas in low-mass systems, and find that it corresponds to a pre-heating temperature of 0.3 keV. Since the relationship between entropy and energy injection depends upon gas density, we are able to combine the excesses of 70140 keV cm² and 0.3 keV to derive the typical electron density of the gas into which the energy was injected. The resulting value of implies that the heating must have happened prior to cluster collapse but after a redshift z 710. The energy requirement is well matched to the energy from supernova explosions responsible for the metals which now pollute the intracluster gas.