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Self-interacting cosmic fluids: Particle production, causal evolution, and vacuum decay

Winfried Zimdahl

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9911251

Abstract

We discuss two different realizations of a ``deflationary'' scenario of the early universe which imply a smooth transition from an initial de Sitter stage to a subsequent radiation-dominated FLRW period. Thermodynamically, this transition is a non-equilibrium process which may also be interpreted as the decay of an initial cosmic vacuum into relativistic matter.

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