Full Causal Theory of Bulk Viscosity and Specific Entropy of the Universe

This article deals with the full Israel–Stewart causal theory of bulk viscosity as employed to the dissipative expansion of the early universe. It is shown that the nontruncated full theory can be cast in the form of a noncausal theory with an auxiliary condition which states that the square of dissipative contribution to the speed of sound varies with the particle number in a comoving volume. Also, a generalized temperature appears in a cosmological invariant which is shown to hold good for the dissipative expansion in an intermediate brief transition period (around the epoch time α = 10−23 s) between the very early “mild inflation” stage of the universe and the standard radiation-dominated FRW era of it. With this generalized temperature, the Gibbs equation has been generalized. This equation is also shown to have an alternative form with a term depending on bulk viscosity. In the dissipative transition period, the universe as a thermodynamically open system of viscous fluid can generate specific entropy. In this period the temperature rose to a considerable extent. Due to the cosmological invariant, the dissipative contribution to the speed of sound and consequently the particle number decreased sharply, ensuring the second law of thermodynamics. It is possible to have an estimate of the specific entropy in consistency with the observations. The total entropy and the particle number of the observable universe have also been found here. These estimates agree with the accepted values for them.