Elements of Cosmological Thermodynamics

Based on the author’s own work and results obtained by renowned cosmologists, this short book provides a concise introduction to the relatively new research field of cosmological thermodynamics. Starting with a brief overview of basic cosmology and thermo

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SpringerBriefs in Physics Series editors B. Ananthanarayan, Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Egor Babaev, Amherst, MA, USA Malcolm Bremer, Bristol, UK Xavier Calmet, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Francesca Di Lodovico, London, UK Pablo D. Esquinazi, Institute for Experimental Physics II, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Maarten Hoogerland, Auckland, New Zealand Eric Le Ru, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn, Wellington, New Zealand Hans-Joachim Lewerenz, Pasadena, CA, USA James Overduin, Towson, MD, USA Vesselin Petkov, Montreal, QC, Canada Charles H.-T. Wang, Department of Physics, The University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Andrew Whitaker, Belfast, UK Stefan Theisen, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphys, Potsdam, Germany Dario Narducci, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

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Subhajit Saha

Elements of Cosmological Thermodynamics

123

Subhajit Saha Department of Mathematics Panihati Mahavidyalaya Kolkata, West Bengal, India

ISSN 2191-5423 ISSN 2191-5431 (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Physics ISBN 978-3-319-74705-7 ISBN 978-3-319-74706-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74706-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018960198 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the righ