Gravitational entropy in Szekeres class I models

Author:

Pizaña Fernando AORCID,Sussman Roberto AORCID,Hidalgo Juan CarlosORCID

Abstract

Abstract Developing a self-consistent notion of gravitational entropy in the context of cosmological structure formation has been so far an elusive task. Various theoretical proposals have been presented, initially based on Penrose’s Weyl curvature hypothesis, and variations of it. A more recent proposal by Clifton, Ellis, and Tavakol (CET) considered a novel approach by defining such entropy from a Gibbs equation constructed from an effective stress–energy tensor that emerges from the ‘square root’ algebraic decomposition of the Bel–Robinson tensor, the simplest divergence-less tensor related to the Weyl tensor. Since, so far all gravitational entropy proposals have been applied to highly restrictive and symmetric spacetimes, we probe in this paper the CET proposal for a class of much less idealized spacetimes (the Szekeres class I models) capable of describing the joint evolution of arrays of arbitrary number of structures: overdensities and voids, all placed on selected spatial locations in an asymptotic ΛCDM background. By using suitable covariant variables and their fluctuations, we find the necessary and sufficient conditions for a positive CET entropy production to be a negative sign of the product of the density and Hubble expansion fluctuations. To examine the viability of this theoretical result we examine numerically the CET entropy production for two elongated over dense regions surrounding a central spheroidal void, all evolving jointly from initial linear perturbations at the last scattering era into present day Mpc-size CDM structures. We show that CET entropy production is positive for all times after last scattering at the precise spatial locations where structure growth occurs and where the exact density growing mode is dominant. The present paper provides the least idealized (and most physically robust) probe of a gravitational entropy proposal in the context of structure formation.

Funder

Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Subject

Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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