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A note on the thermodynamics of gravitational radiation

T Padmanabhan1 and T P Singh2

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It is shown that linearized gravitational radiation confined in a cavity can achieve thermal equilibrium if the mean density of the radiation and the size of the cavity satisfy certain constraints.


PACS

04.30.-w Gravitational waves

04.70.Dy Quantum aspects of black holes, evaporation, thermodynamics

05.70.-a Thermodynamics

MSC

83D05 Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories

83C35 Gravitational waves

83C57 Black holes

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 20 (21 October 2003)

Received 12 May 2003

Published 12 September 2003



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