ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 97 03 13 7 v 2 3 D ec 1 99 7 Inflationary cosmology and thermodynamics
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We present a simple and thermodynamically consistent cosmology with a phenomenological model of quantum creation of radiation due to vacuum decay. Thermodynamics and Einstein’s equations lead to an equation in which H is determined by the particle number N . The model is completed by specifying the particle creation rate Γ = Ṅ/N , which leads to a second-order evolution equation for H . We propose a simple Γ that is naturally defined and that conforms to the thermodynamical conditions: (a) the entropy production rate starts at a maximum; (b) the initial vacuum (for radiation) is a non-singular regular vacuum; and (c) the creation rate is initially higher than the expansion rate H , but then falls below H . The evolution equation for H then has a remarkably simple exact solution, in which a non-adiabatic inflationary era exits smoothly to the radiation era, without a reheating transition. For this solution, we give exact expressions for the cosmic scale factor, energy density of radiation and vacuum, temperature, entropy and super-horizon scalar perturbations. PACS numbers: 9880C, 9880H, 9530T, 0540
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