Dark energy and the generalized second law
arXiv:astro-ph/0505601 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2005.12.040
Abstract
We explore the thermodynamics of dark energy taking into account the existence of the observer's event horizon in accelerated universes. Except for the initial stage of Chaplygin gas dominated expansion, the generalized second law of gravitational thermodynamics is fulfilled and the temperature of the phantom fluid results positive. This substantially extends the work of Pollock and Singh [10] on the thermodynamics of super--inflationary expansion.
18 pages, 4 eps figures, title shortened, abstract slightly altered, short discussion about negative entropies and references added, main conclusions unchanged, to be published in Physics Letters B