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Entropy Growth and the Dark Energy Equation of State

Wilfried Buchmuller, Joerg Jaeckel

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0610835

Abstract

We revisit the conjecture of a generalized second law of thermodynamics which states that the combined entropy of matter and horizons must grow. In an expanding universe a generalized second law restricts the equation of state. In particular, it conflicts with long phases of a phantom, w<-1, equation of state.

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