Measuring the strength of dissipative inflation
arXiv:gr-qc/9912043 · doi:10.1023/A:1001990217528
Abstract
We comment on recently proposed dissipative inflationary models. It is shown that the strength of the inflationary expansion is related to a specific combination of thermodynamic variables which is known to measure the instability of self-gravitating dissipative systems.
8 pages, Latex. To appear in Gen.Rel.Grav