Particle creation in varying speed of light cosmological models

Authors
Citation
T. Harko et Mk. Mak, Particle creation in varying speed of light cosmological models, CLASS QUANT, 16(8), 1999, pp. 2741-2752
Citations number
42
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
ISSN journal
02649381 → ACNP
Volume
16
Issue
8
Year of publication
1999
Pages
2741 - 2752
Database
ISI
SICI code
0264-9381(199908)16:8<2741:PCIVSO>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
Einstein's field equations with a variable speed of light c = c(t), gravita tional coupling G = G(t) and decaying vacuum energy density Lambda = Lambda (t) are considered as describing matter creation in a cosmological framewor k. The particle creation rate is uniquely determined by the variation rates of c, G and Lambda. By considering simple phenomenological evolution laws for the 'constants', exact analytical and numerical solutions of the gravit ational field equations are obtained for a homogeneous and isotropic Friedm ann-Robertson-Walker spacetime leading to a self-consistent cosmological mo del describing matter and entropy generation in the very early Universe.