Thermodynamics in dynamical spacetimes
arXiv:1310.6287 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.064032
Abstract
We derive a general formulation of the laws of irreversible thermodynamics in the presence of electromagnetism and gravity. For the handling of macroscopic material media, we use as a guide the field equations and the Noether identities of fundamental matter as deduced in the framework of gauge theories of the Poincaré group.
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