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Letter: Measuring the Strength of Dissipative Inflation

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We comment on recently proposed dissipative inflationary models. It is shown that the strength of the inflationary expansion is related to a specific combination of thermodynamic variables which is known to measure the instability of self-gravitating dissipative systems.

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  1. Area d. Fis. Teor., Univ. de Salamanca, Spain

    Luis Herrera & Alicia Di Prisco

  2. UCV, Caracas, Venezuela

    Luis Herrera

  3. Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

    Alicia Di Prisco

  4. Dept. Fis., Univ. Auton. de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

    Diego Pavón

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Herrera, L., Di Prisco, A. & Pavón, D. Letter: Measuring the Strength of Dissipative Inflation. General Relativity and Gravitation 32, 2091–2097 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1001990217528

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