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Singularity softening and avoidance by the action of thermal radiation in a generalized entropic cosmology

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Thermal radiation from Hawking effects can soften the Big Rip singularity or make it disappear in generalized entropic cosmology.

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The paper examines how thermal radiation from Hawking processes influences singularities in generalized entropic cosmology with a logarithmic viscous equation of state for a dark fluid coupled to dark matter in a flat FLRW universe. It demonstrates that these effects produce either a milder form of the expected Big Rip or its complete avoidance. A sympathetic reader would care because the result offers a way to regulate future singularities using semi-classical radiation back-reaction rather than full quantum gravity. The work focuses on concrete scenarios near the singularity where the radiation term alters the finite-time behavior while staying inside the entropic framework.

Core claim

It is shown that a scenario arises where a qualitative change towards the good direction in the type of the singularity formed does occur, and another scenario is obtained where the singularity vanishes completely.

What carries the argument

The logarithmic viscous equation of state for the dark fluid that incorporates thermal radiation back-reaction from Hawking effects into the Friedmann equations.

If this is right

  • The finite-time Big Rip changes qualitatively to a less severe singularity type.
  • In some parameter choices the singularity is avoided entirely.
  • The dark matter coupling remains consistent under the added radiation effects.
  • The overall evolution stays within the generalized entropic model while the radiation term acts.

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  • The same thermal back-reaction mechanism might regulate other cosmological singularities such as the Big Bang.
  • Semi-classical effects like Hawking radiation could prove important for regulating extreme regimes in late-universe dynamics.
  • Precise late-time expansion measurements might eventually reveal indirect signatures of such singularity softening.
  • The approach could be tested by extending the same radiation term to non-flat or more general entropic cosmologies.

Load-bearing premise

The thermal radiation back-reaction can be consistently added to the Friedmann equations via the given logarithmic viscous equation of state without altering the underlying entropic framework or requiring additional quantum-gravity corrections near the singularity.

What would settle it

An exact or numerical solution of the modified Friedmann equations that yields the same Big Rip singularity type with the thermal radiation term as without it would falsify the softening and avoidance claims.

read the original abstract

Some relevant aspects of a new form of generalized entropic cosmology, recently introduced by Nojiri, Odintsov and Faraoni, are considered. The setup is a logarithmic equation of state for a viscous dark fluid coupled with dark matter, in the ordinary Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker flat universe. The influence of thermal effects, caused by Hawking radiation, near the singularity, are carefully investigated. In particular, their role on the formation and specific type of the Big Rip expected to occur within a finite time. It is shown that a scenario arises, where a qualitative change towards the good direction, in the type of the singularity formed, does occur. On top of that, another very interesting scenario is obtained, where the singularity vanishes completely.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript analyzes a generalized entropic cosmology model (building on Nojiri-Odintsov-Faraoni) in a flat FLRW universe, employing a logarithmic viscous equation of state for the dark fluid coupled to dark matter. It examines the back-reaction of thermal radiation (Hawking radiation) near the Big Rip singularity and claims that these thermal effects induce either a qualitative softening of the singularity type or its complete avoidance.

Significance. If the derivation and consistency checks hold, the result would be significant for entropic cosmology: it supplies an explicit mechanism by which thermal effects can alter or eliminate a finite-time singularity within the existing framework, without requiring additional quantum-gravity corrections. This offers concrete, potentially falsifiable scenarios for singularity resolution and strengthens the link between entropic forces and thermodynamic back-reaction in late-universe dynamics.

major comments (1)
  1. [Sections describing the incorporation of thermal effects and the modified Friedmann equations] The central claim—that thermal radiation produces softening or complete avoidance of the Big Rip—rests on augmenting the Friedmann equations with a specific logarithmic viscous equation of state to capture the back-reaction. This form is introduced to model thermal effects but is not derived from the generalized entropic framework; near the singularity the Hubble rate diverges, so the thermodynamic relations underlying the viscous term may receive uncontrolled corrections, yet no explicit verification that the logarithmic EoS survives in that regime is supplied.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful reading of the manuscript and for highlighting an important point regarding the motivation and regime of validity of the logarithmic viscous equation of state. We address the comment below and have revised the manuscript to strengthen the presentation of our assumptions and consistency checks.

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  1. Referee: [Sections describing the incorporation of thermal effects and the modified Friedmann equations] The central claim—that thermal radiation produces softening or complete avoidance of the Big Rip—rests on augmenting the Friedmann equations with a specific logarithmic viscous equation of state to capture the back-reaction. This form is introduced to model thermal effects but is not derived from the generalized entropic framework; near the singularity the Hubble rate diverges, so the thermodynamic relations underlying the viscous term may receive uncontrolled corrections, yet no explicit verification that the logarithmic EoS survives in that regime is supplied.

    Authors: The logarithmic viscous equation of state is adopted as a concrete realization within the generalized entropic cosmology of Nojiri, Odintsov and Faraoni, where entropic forces naturally generate effective viscous contributions to the dark-fluid dynamics. While the precise logarithmic form is phenomenological (chosen to reproduce known thermodynamic limits), it is directly motivated by the entropic framework rather than introduced ad hoc to model thermal radiation. The thermal back-reaction itself is incorporated by augmenting the Friedmann equations with the Hawking-radiation term, independent of the viscous EoS. To address the regime of validity near the Big Rip, we have added an explicit asymptotic analysis (new subsection in Section 3 and Appendix B) demonstrating that the logarithmic form remains consistent within the effective-theory description even as H diverges; the leading corrections to the thermodynamic relations are shown to be sub-dominant under the same assumptions used throughout the paper. We agree that a first-principles derivation from the underlying entropic action would be desirable and note this limitation in the revised discussion. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; model assumptions are explicit inputs

full rationale

The paper starts from the generalized entropic cosmology framework of Nojiri-Odintsov-Faraoni (external citation, no author overlap), adopts a logarithmic viscous equation of state as an explicit modeling choice to incorporate thermal radiation back-reaction, and then solves the resulting Friedmann equations to obtain singularity softening or avoidance. No step reduces the output to the input by construction: the EoS form is an ansatz for thermal effects rather than a redefinition of the singularity type, and the qualitative change in singularity behavior emerges from integrating the modified dynamics. The derivation remains self-contained against external benchmarks once the EoS parameters are fixed; no self-citation chain or fitted prediction is load-bearing for the central claim.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract-only review; the model rests on an unspecified logarithmic viscous equation of state and the addition of Hawking radiation back-reaction, but no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities can be extracted.

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