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arxiv: 1902.06651 · v1 · pith:2JMEBNFTnew · submitted 2019-02-18 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

Does the second law hold at cosmic scales?

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The second law of thermodynamics is known to hold at small scales also when gravity plays a leading role, as in the case of black holes and self-gravitating radiation spheres. It has been suggested that it should as well at large scales. Here, by a purely kinematic analysis \textemdash based on the history of the Hubble factor and independent of any cosmological model \textemdash , we explore if this law is fulfilled in the case of homogeneous and isotropic universes regardless of the sign of the spatial curvature.

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