In the framework of geometrothermodynamics, we explore how to construct an inflationary cosmic fluid without requiring inflaton fields. To do so, we employ standard radiation and matter as barotropic background, speculating on the existence of a further real fluid, interpreted as a possible matter with pressure constituent. We thus illustrate its main characteristics, showing how it may face the flatness and horizon problems, yielding an equivalent number of e-foldings, compatible with theoretical expectations. Moreover, we calculate the associated equilibrium and kinetic temperatures, and compute out-of-equilibrium properties, in terms of particle production and effective reheating mechanism. Accordingly, we revise how inflation ends and how to fix the free parameters of our model from observations. Last but not least, we propose how to obtain a bare cosmological constant that could relate the late-time acceleration to inflation, aiming to unify the two approaches. Finally, we discuss the corresponding theoretical implications of our treatment in contrast to the standard approach reliant on scalar field potentials, emphasizing the main advantages and disadvantages.

A thermodynamic model of inflation without inflaton field

Orlando Luongo;
2024-01-01

Abstract

In the framework of geometrothermodynamics, we explore how to construct an inflationary cosmic fluid without requiring inflaton fields. To do so, we employ standard radiation and matter as barotropic background, speculating on the existence of a further real fluid, interpreted as a possible matter with pressure constituent. We thus illustrate its main characteristics, showing how it may face the flatness and horizon problems, yielding an equivalent number of e-foldings, compatible with theoretical expectations. Moreover, we calculate the associated equilibrium and kinetic temperatures, and compute out-of-equilibrium properties, in terms of particle production and effective reheating mechanism. Accordingly, we revise how inflation ends and how to fix the free parameters of our model from observations. Last but not least, we propose how to obtain a bare cosmological constant that could relate the late-time acceleration to inflation, aiming to unify the two approaches. Finally, we discuss the corresponding theoretical implications of our treatment in contrast to the standard approach reliant on scalar field potentials, emphasizing the main advantages and disadvantages.
2024
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