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Relaxation dominated cosmological expansion

Luis P. Chimento, Alejandro S. Jakubi

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9601033

Abstract

The behavior near the singularity of an isotropic, homogeneous cosmological model with a viscous fluid source is investigated. This turns out to be a relaxation dominated regime. Full extended irreversible thermodynamics is used, and comparison with results of the truncated theory is made. New singular behaviors are found and it is shown that a relaxation dominated inflationary epoch may exist for fluids with small heat capacity.

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