Tuesday, January 8, 2013

1301.0895 (Li-Ming Cao et al.)

Maximum Entropy Principle for Self-gravitating Perfect Fluid in Lovelock
Gravity
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Li-Ming Cao, Jianfei Xu, Zhe Zeng
We consider a static self-gravitating system consisting of perfect fluid with isometries of an $(n-2)$-dimensional maximally symmetric space in Lovelock gravity theory. A straightforward analysis of the time-time component of the equations of motion suggests a generalized mass function. Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff like equation is obtained by using this mass function and gravitational equations. We investigate the maximum entropy principle in Lovelock gravity, and find that this Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation can also be deduced from the so called "maximum entropy principle" which is originally customized for Einstein gravity theory. This manifests the deep connection between gravity and thermodynamics.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0895

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