Published August 1, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Corrected entropy of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe in tunneling method

  • 1. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000 (China)

Description

In this paper, we study the thermodynamic quantities of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe by using the tunneling formalism beyond semiclassical approximation developed by Banerjee and Majhi [25]. For this we first calculate the corrected Hawking-like temperature on apparent horizon by considering both scalar particle and fermion tunneling. With this corrected Hawking-like temperature, the explicit expressions of the corrected entropy of apparent horizon for various gravity theories including Einstein gravity, Gauss-Bonnet gravity, Lovelock gravity, f(R) gravity and scalar-tensor gravity, are computed. Our results show that the corrected entropy formula for different gravity theories can be written into a general expression (4.39) of a same form. It is also shown that this expression is also valid for black holes. This might imply that the expression for the corrected entropy derived from tunneling method is independent of gravity theory, spacetime and dimension of the spacetime. Moreover, it is concluded that the basic thermodynamical property that the corrected entropy on apparent horizon is a state function is satisfied by the FRW universe

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2009/08/010

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2009
Journal Issue
08
Journal Page Range
p. 010
ISSN
1475-7516

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
45094451
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
BLACK HOLES; COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; COSMOLOGY; ENTROPY; FERMIONS; GRAVITATION; SCALARS; SEMICLASSICAL APPROXIMATION; SPACE-TIME; TENSORS; THERMODYNAMICS; TUNNEL EFFECT; UNIVERSE
Descriptors DEC
APPROXIMATIONS; CALCULATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES