1. Introduction
“I am convinced that the only physical theory with universal substance that can be utilized is thermodynamics, and that it will never be denied.”
—Albert Einstein
A fundamental thermodynamic system consists of a homogeneous macroscopic group of elements. The system is viewed as a “black box”, and the state of the system is described by a handful of macroscopic parameters, often energy, entropy, volume, and particle number, which are determined by the environment in which the system lives. These are not all necessarily independent, though. Thermodynamic degrees of freedom are the number of n independent parameters in a basic one-phase system with components. Any more parameters will be dependent. A non-uniform thermodynamic system can be created through the interaction of simple thermodynamic systems.
A comprehensive function of state known as the internal energy exists for every thermodynamic system. Manifolds originally developed as a set of variables that were subject to equations. The creators of differential geometry thoroughly investigated the early examples, such as curves and surfaces [
1]. Smooth is typically understood to mean a piecewise analytic for the manifold of equilibrium states of a thermodynamic system. Be aware that the overlap requirement must be satisfied if the manifold is a connected set, in which case all coordinate chart pictures must have the same
n dimension. The dimension of the manifold is the name given to this value. The thermodynamic system’s manifold of equilibrium states is the one we will focus on in the next sections. The number of degrees of freedom in the system is referred to as the dimension of this manifold. Therefore, the connected four-dimensional time-oriented Lorentzian manifold is modeled using the thermodynamical spacetime manifold (see [
2]) of the general theory of relativity
(general relativity is basically a theory of gravitation developed by A. Einstein between 1907 and 1915, which states that the observed gravitational effect between masses results from their wrapping of spacetime) and cosmological space.
Basically, both the spacetime of the
and cosmology are used to model a connected four-dimensional time-oriented Lorentzian manifold [
3,
4].
Definition 1. If the Ricci tensor has a certain shape, then it is claimed that a Lorentzian manifold is a perfect, fluid spacetime [5].where u is a 1
-form metrically related to a vector field that resembles time and a and b are non-zero scalars; the spacetime manifold is a Lorentzian manifold. Formally, the effective energy-momentum tensor, defined in [
6], can be used to recast the
. Then, in the presence of a competent time-like vector field, this tensor is described by isotropic pressure, energy density, an anisotropic pressure, and energy flow [
3]. Moreover, this tensor also changes the shape of the Ricci tensor in Einstein’s equation for perfect fluid spacetime (
1).
For the thermodynamics aspect of the spacetime manifold from which Einstein’s equation is derived, the fundamental relationship between the horizon area and entropy as well as their proportionality [
7] is as follows:
where
is the temperature,
S is the entropy and
Q is the heat. The energy flux and temperature inside the horizon, as observed by an accelerating observer, are denoted by
and
in the relationship above, which holds for all local causal horizons via each spacetime point. For the Einstein equation to hold, gravitational lensing caused by matter-energy must specifically alter the causal structure of spacetime.
In 1995, Jacobson [
8] proposed that the Einstein equation can be derived as a constitutive equation for the equilibrium (
2) of a thermodynamical spacetime point of view with a cosmological constant, which can be given as:
Recent observations indicating an accelerating rate of cosmic expansion have led many cosmologists to believe that our universe is characterized by a positive value for cosmological constant (for more details, see [
9]). The length
is twice the Planck length
, where Newton’s constant,
, is determined by the constant of proportionality
between the entropy and the area (for additional information, see [
7]). As mysterious as ever, the cosmological constant
is still unknown.
Inclusion of the cosmological constant : A scientific hypothesis with amazing power and simplicity,
is a model example. Meanwhile, the cosmological constant serves as a prime example of an adjustment that, at least on the surface, seems unnecessary and unpleasant, but which actually helps match the facts. When the universe’s expansion was discovered, its original purpose of enabling static homogeneous solutions to Einstein’s equations in the presence of matter was shown to be unnecessary. Since then, there have been a number of instances in which a non-zero cosmological constant has been proposed as an explanation for a set of observations and later withdrawn when the observational case vanished [
10]. In the meantime, researchers studying particle theory have discovered that the cosmological constant may be used to calculate the energy density of the vacuum. This energy density is the result of several, seemingly unrelated contributions that are all orders of magnitude greater than the cosmological constant’s upper bounds (for further information, see [
11]).
Other reviews of the cosmological constant’s different elements include:
- (i)
Dark energy (), dark matter () and regular composed of atoms matter were determined to be the universe’s energy makeup. Understanding these observational data may require modifying the description offered by . The inclusion of the cosmological constant in Einstein’s field equations is one of the main models utilized for this goal, among the several techniques to describe the cosmic acceleration. The word refers to an unidentified kind of matter that exerts gravitational force but cannot be detected by its radiation. Dark energy, often known as , is an unidentified energy source and an unusual material with high negative pressure. The main and most pertinent candidate for , which offers the best rational explanation of the cosmos, is the cosmological constant.
- (ii)
In order to account for the state of the universe at the moment, cosmologists have recently become interested in modeling cosmological models for an alternative theory of gravity (modified theory). Numerous theories have been devised in accordance with the recognized rules of physics, but they are still unable to fully explain the enigma of the driving force behind the universe’s expansion. Many cosmologists have researched the role of variables
G and
to describe the current scenario of the accelerating universe as an alternative to changing the general theory of relativity by adding
-gravity [
12] and
-gravity [
13]. Newton’s constant
G may be regarded as a function of time or the scale factor, for example.
In observational and relativistic cosmology, the cosmos is studied using equations of state (EoS), perfect fluid cosmological models and other tools. The gravitational constant
G serves as a coupling constant in the general theory of gravity between the geometry of space and the matter content in Einstein’s field equations. In general-relativistic quantum field theory, the cosmological constant
naturally appears and is stated in terms of the vacuum energy density. They are also thought of as basic constants. After identifying a potential resolution to the cosmological constant problem, a cosmological model with a dynamic cosmological constant that is free of the cosmological problems was created [
14].
- (iii)
The key area of inquiry will be the thermodynamic features of cosmological models, where
G and
are time-dependent variables. The cosmos as a whole is constrained by the second law of thermodynamics, which keeps the temperature law in its original form. Additionally, the study of heat, radiation and black holes uses thermodynamics. The evolution of our universe can be predicted by the large quantity of entropy that is present in the universe and is in the form of black-body radiation. Numerous cosmic facts indicate that matter was in a state where all portions of a system had the same temperature or amount of heat. It is further noticed that the universe is homogeneous in its early stages based on the isotropy of the cosmic data. As a result, thermodynamics can be used to study the early universe’s behaviors. In the EoS (
, the parameter
describes dark energy, whereas
describes phantom energy. Symbolically,
p and
signify the pressure and energy density, respectively [
11].
- (iv)
The Lovelock theory of gravity reduces to the Gauss–Bonnet term in a four-dimensional connected spacetime manifold, and it emerges in a five-dimensional (≥5) spacetime. Lovelock gravity also admits black hole solutions and the accompanying thermodynamics as expected in terms of the cosmological constant and is ghost-free with second-order field equations.
These calculations, which can be referred to as non-extended phase spaces, were made with the cosmological constant present as a fixed quantity. Some values are thermodynamic variables in thermodynamic systems, while others are fixed parameters that cannot change.
Remark 1. The energy density associated with dark energy gives rise to a negative pressure and asymptotically approaches the constant known as the cosmological constant Λ after the 1998 discovery of the universe’s accelerated expansion from the observation of supernovas.
For , this cosmological constant Λ
is crucial in understanding the universe’s observed accelerated expansion. As a result, the energy density connected to the cosmological constant is known as the "vacuum energy density" or "dark energy density", , and it is defined as [15]:where c is velocity and G is Newton’s constant. The formula for the mass density that corresponds to the vacuum energy density is [
15]:
Additionally, the definition of the dark energy equation of state is [
15]:
The energy-momentum tensor is crucial in determining the amount of matter in spacetime, despite the fact that matter is typically thought of as a fluid with properties such as density, pressure and dynamic and kinematic characteristics, such as velocity, acceleration, shear and expansion [
3]. In conventional cosmological models, the universe’s matter composition is thought to behave as a certain fluid spacetime (perfect fluid spacetime). As a result, we split the effective energy-momentum tensor into two portions, the first of which is a perfect fluid that is pressureless, and the second of which is an imperfect fluid. The imperfect part is calculated to give an effective explanation of dark energy
and the perfect fluid part is described to explain the dark matter
[
16].
Moreover, in the case of a perfect fluid spacetime, there is no existence of heat conduction and viscosity. A spacetime nature is dependent on the casting of stuff in it. Now, we may define the following:
Definition 2. A four-dimensional Lorentzian spacetime manifold which includes thermal energy density, thermal flux and thermal stress, is called thermodynamical fluid spacetime
[17]. Heat is described by the energy tensor , often known as the thermal energy tensor [18]. Therefore, the entire cosmic foundation is also an imperfect fluid. Thermodynamics describes it. The only local sources of energy for a matter tensor’s type of matter will be mass and heat [
18]
where the “
material energy tensor” is an energy tensor denoted by the symbol
. This uses the following conventional form [
18]:
for this kind of substance, often called
dust. Additionally, as demonstrated by the relativistic kinetic theory of gases,
is the exact effective energy tensor created by the random motion of particles around the average flow denoted by
u [
16]. The standard form of
is given as [
18]:
In a
, the thermodynamic matter tensor
T is of the following shape [
18]:
where
is an effective density,
is the thermal energy density,
is the thermal stress tensor and
q is the thermal flux. In
, one projection of a thermal energy tensor is the thermal flux. Furthermore,
and
are time-like and space-like orthogonal vector fields, respectively, such that
,
. They are corresponding orthogonal vector fields with 1-forms
u and
q, respectively, that is,
and
.
Chaki used a covariant constant energy momentum tensor to explore spacetimes [
19]. Furthermore, a topic that is closely connected to this one and has been studied by a number of writers is the spacetime manifold with an energy momentum tensor (for more details, see ([
3,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24]).
Symmetries play a profound role in nature, and as such, physics. Different species of particles organize themselves in symmetric ways. Symmetry is also a mathematical explanation for conserved quantities such as momentum and energy. For example, there is even a whole field theoretical physics called “super-symmetry”.The sort of symmetry varies on the matter and spacetime manifold geometry, and its Lorentzian metric frequently makes it easier to find solutions to a variety of problems, such as those posed by Einstein’s field equations.
Physical matter symmetry in the is directly applicable to spacetime geometry. A key symmetry is the soliton which is attached to the spacetime geometrical flow. In fact, the concept of kinematics and thermodynamics in is understood via the Ricci flow. Curvatures maintain self-resemblance, which keeps concentrated.
, or self-similar solutions of the Ricci flow
[
25], were proposed in Riemannian Geometry and play a crucial role in explaining its singularities.
Definition 3. An is pseudo-Riemannian manifold , admitting a smooth vector field V, such that [25]where , and θ indicate the Lie derivative along the direction of V, the Ricci tensor and a real number, respectively. Referring to (11), an is known to be growing, stable or decreasing according to whether , or , respectively. have subsequently received a lot of attention in pseudo-Riemannian situations. One of the many factors contributing to the increased interest of theoretical physicists in
is their connection to String theory. In terms of
, Ahsan and Ali explored the spacetime manifold in the
[
26]. In addition, the perfect fluid spacetimes were depicted by Blaga in [
27], with
-
and
-Einstein solitons. In [
28],
is also used by Venkatesha and Aruna to study perfect fluid spacetimes with a torse-forming vector field. Numerous authors conducted in-depth research on spacetimes with solitons in distinct manners; we may refer to ([
27,
29,
30,
31,
32,
33,
34]) and references therein.
Therefore, the results of earlier research served as our motivation. We explore the behavior of
in
Section 2. In
Section 3, we examine a geometrical feature of
and demonstrate that the total density of space is not zero. In addition, we determine the cosmological constant
, whose value relies on the scalar curvature
. With the help of the Codazzi and cyclic parallel Ricci conditions, we confine the curvature of
in
Section 4.
In [
28], the authors studied quasi-conformal flat perfect fluid spacetime, and in the present manuscript, we estimate a new and more general notion named the pseudo-quasi-conformal curvature tensor on
. Basically, a pseudo-Quasi-conformal curvature tensor is a generalization of a concircular curvature tensor, conformal curvature tensor, quasi-conformal curvature tensor and projective curvature tensor.
Furthermore, the authors analyze the behavior of distinct solitons on perfect fluid spacetimes using a torse-forming vector field, a Jacobi vector field, and a killing vector field in [
27,
28,
35,
36]. With a new sort of vector field called the
or
vector field, we examine the
on
in
Section 7. Additionally, using a
vector field and the
, we determine the value of the cosmological constant
on
. In addition, we discover that an expanding universe, assuming the cosmological constant
is positive, is the condition for a
with an
.
3. Geometrical Virtues of Relativistic
Through (15), we have for all E.
Theorem 2. In a relativistic , the generator ξ is an eigenvector of the Ricci tensor corresponding to the eigenvalue .
Let us assume that in a relativistic , is the parallel velocity vector field. Then, for all E, which argues that is an outcome of for all E. Again, from (15), we obtain . Thus, is required. As a result, we get the following outcome:
Theorem 3. If the generator ξ of a relativistic is a parallel velocity vector field, then the associated scalars α, β are linked by .
After all, both
and
are orthogonal to each other, thus, from (
16), we obtain that:
which signifies that
is orthogonal to
⇔
. Thus, we can articulate the following:
Theorem 4. In a relativistic , is orthogonal to ξ if and only if .
Proof. From (55), we easily obtain our desired result. □
Therefore, from Equation (
20), we notice that
.
Corollary 2. If the velocity vector field is parallel of the relativistic , then the sum of densities is .
Corollary 3. In a relativistic , is orthogonal to ξ with .
In addition, from (
18) we find:
which signifies that
is orthogonal to
⇔
. Thus, we can articulate:
Theorem 5. In a relativistic , is orthogonal to ζ if and only if .
Likewise, in virtue of Equation (
20) and the theorem 5, the following consequence is found:
Corollary 4. If is orthogonal to ζ in a relativistic , then the scalar curvature is and the value of cosmological constant is .
In light of Remark 1 and Corollary 4, the outcome is as follows:
Theorem 6. If is orthogonal to ζ in a relativistic , then the relativistic is an accelerating universe if and only if .
Corollary 5. If is orthogonal to ζ in a relativistic , then the relativistic with is a supernova if and only if .
Furthermore, the relations (4), (15) and (6) entail that:
Theorem 7. If is orthogonal to ζ in a relativistic with , then the dark energy, , pressure and vacuum energy density is
Next, let us assume that
and
are parallel vector field on
. Then, we have
and
, which imply that:
Hence, it follows that:
Now, adopting (
15) and (
18) we obtain
Due to the parallel vector fields
and
’s implication,
.
7. Ricci Solitons on Relativistic with a Vector Field
Definition 7 ([
43]).
A vector field ψ on a semi-Riemannian manifold M is said to be a -vector field if it satisfies:where ∇, σ and Q is the Levi-Civita connection, a constant, and a Ricci operator, respectively. If , then vector field ψ is said to be a proper -vector field, and if in (46), then vector filed ψ is said to be covariantly constant. Now, we obtain an interesting finding.
Theorem 12. If a relativistic M admitting an , such that the potential vector field ψ is a proper -vector field, then is a relativistic .
Proof. In view of (
11) and (
13), we obtain:
By the definition of the Lie-derivative and (
46), one has:
for any
.
From (
47) and (
48), we obtain:
□
Adopting
in (
49), we find:
Hence, we state the following results.
Theorem 13. Let M be a relativistic admitting an with a proper - time-like velocity vector field ξ; then, is growing, stable or decreasing according to , and , respectively.
Corollary 7. Let M be a relativistic admitting an , such that the time-like velocity vector field ξ is , which is covariantly constant; then, decreases.
Again, putting
in (
49) yields:
which signifies:
where
and
. As a result, the following can be said.
Theorem 14. A relativistic admitting an with a proper - time-like velocity vector field ξ, after which the relativistic admits thermal flux, provided: Corollary 8. A relativistic admitting an with a covariantly constant time-like velocity vector field ξ, after which the relativistic admits thermal flux, provided: In view of Remark 1 and Equations (
53), (
4)–(
6), we obtain the following results:
Theorem 15. With a relativistic admitting an with a proper - time-like velocity vector field ξ and relativistic admitting thermal flux, the value of the cosmological constant is positive if and only if
Theorem 16. With a relativistic admitting an with a proper - time-like velocity vector field ξ and relativistic admitting thermal flux, the is an accelerating universe if and only if .
Theorem 17. With a relativistic admitting an with a proper - time-like velocity vector field ξ and relativistic admitting thermal flux, , the dark energy is , pressure is and vacuum energy density is
Again, using
, we arrive at:
Theorem 18. Let M be a relativistic admitting an with a proper -space-like velocity vector field ζ; then, decreases.
Corollary 9. If M is a relativistic admitting an with a covariantly constant -space-like velocity vector field ζ, then is growing, stable or decreasing according to , and , respectively.
Example 1. Let , where are the standard coordinates of .
Let
be the set of linearly independent vector fields of
M, and is defined as:
Let
g be the Riemannian metric
M, defined by:
Let
be the 1-form defined by
for any
.
Furthermore, let
be the
tensor field, defined by:
and let ∇ be the Levi-Civita connection with respect to the Lorentzian metric
g. Thus, using the linearity of
and
g, we obtain:
Then, for
and using Koszul’s formula for the Lorentzian metric
g, we obtain:
From (55), we find that the structure
is a Lorentzian structure on
M. Consequently,
is an Lorentzian manifold (four-dimensional spacetime model).
The non-vanishing components of Riemannian curvature and the Ricci tensors are given by:
From the above expression of the curvature tensor, we can easily calculate the non-vanishing components of the Ricci tensor
similarly, we have:
Therefore:
Now, in light of (
11) and (
49), we obtain:
for all
, and we have:
for all
, we gain
. Thus, the data
are Ricci solitons on
, with a proper
- time-like velocity vector field
, which is expanding if
, shrinking if
or steady if
, as illustrated in Theorem 13.
In addition, the data are expanding Ricci solitons on ; additionally, a time-like velocity vector field is covariantly constant if and verified Corollary 7.
Finally, in light of Equation (
53), we find the value of
, and it will be positive if
which also fulfills the Theorems 16 and 17.