On the correspondence between energy conservation and energy-momentum tensor conservation in cosmology

Abstract

The correspondence between the thermodynamic energy equation satisfied by a closed co-moving volume and the conservation equation satisfied by the energy-momentum tensor of the matter inside the co-moving volume is extended to a more general system with an arbitrary cosmological horizon and a heat source. The energy of the system consisting of a cosmological horizon and its internal matter could be conserved by defining a surface energy on the horizons. Therefore, energy conservation and energy-momentum tensor conservation can always be consistent for such a system. On the other hand, from the perspective of classical thermodynamics, one can define an effective pressure at the cosmological horizon to guarantee that the thermodynamic energy equation inside the horizon is consistent with the energy-momentum tensor conservation equation of the matter inside the horizon. These systems can satisfy the generalized second law of thermodynamics under appropriate conditions. The definitions of the surface energy and the effective pressure are extended to the gravity theory with non-minimal coupling between geometry and matter, in which geometry could be regarded as a heat source.

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