Ideal gas with a varying (negative absolute) temperature: An alternative to dark energy?
arXiv:1802.00742 · doi:10.1007/s10773-018-3670-1
Abstract
The present work is an attempt to investigate whether the evolutionary history of the Universe from the offset of inflation can be described by assuming the cosmic fluid to be an ideal gas with a specific gas constant but a varying negative absolute temperature (NAT). The motivation of this work is to search for an alternative to the "exotic" and "supernatural" dark energy (DE). In fact, the NAT works as an "effective quintessence" and there is need to deal neither with exotic matter like DE nor with modified gravity theories. For the sake of completeness, we release some clarifications on NATs in Section 3 of the paper.
10 pages, accepted for publication in International Journal of Theoretical Physics
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