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Termodynamika černých děr. Entropie a informace.
Liška, Marek ; Acquaviva, Giovanni (advisor) ; Scholtz, Martin (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to provide a review of black hole thermodynamics and its relation with concepts of entropy and physical information. We start by deriving the four laws of black hole thermodynamics in the context of classical general relativity. To supplement this, we use semiclassical limit of quantum mechanics to show that black holes radiate and have non-zero thermodynamic temperature. In the second part of the thesis we describe the concepts of the Shannon and von Neumann entropy and of physical information. Lastly, we discuss the use of these concepts in the context of black hole mechanics. 1
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Dynamical systems in cosmology
Knob, Lukáš ; Acquaviva, Giovanni (advisor) ; Loukes Gerakopoulos, Georgios (referee)
The main aim of this thesis is the analysis of different cosmological models from the standpoint of dynamical systems theory. We consider mostly spatially curved FLRW metric with different source terms, some of them possible candidates for dark matter and dark energy, particularly linear barotropic fluids, Chaplygin gas and canonical scalar field with exponential and general form of potential. We rewrite the cosmological equations as the system of the first order differential equations in dimensionless variables and study globally their phase space and the stability of the critical points. We also present few interesting features of models with interactions between two cosmic fluid constituents and mention dynamical properties of orthogonal Bianchi I models. 1
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Dynamical analysis approaches in spatially curved FRW spacetimes
Kerachian, M. ; Acquaviva, G. ; Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Georgios
We summarize two agnostic approaches in the framework of spatially curved Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmologies discussed in detail in (Kerachian et al., 2020, 2019). The first case concerns the dynamics of a fluid with an unspecified barotropic equation of state (EoS), for which the only assumption made is the non-negativity of the fluid’s energy density. The second case concerns the dynamics of a non-minimally coupled real scalar field with unspecified positive potential. For each of these models, we define a new set of dimensionless variables and a new evolution parameter. In the framework of these agnostic setups, we are able to identify several general features, like symmetries, invariant subsetsand critical points, and provide their cosmological interpretation.
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Standard and alternative cosmological models
Pulnova, Yelyzaveta ; Acquaviva, Giovanni (advisor) ; Žofka, Martin (referee)
The main aim of this thesis is the study of the dependence of the scale factor on the cosmic time for different models of Universe's evolution in the framework of the general theory of relativity. In this thesis we consider the FLRW metric and admit nonzero curvature. The models we consider differ from each other by the equation of state of the source, hence by the composition of the cosmic fluid under study. In this thesis the following models are discussed: ΛCDM (we consider a perfect cosmic fluid consisting of the incoherent dust, radiation and a cosmological constant in a curved space-time), generalized Chaplygin gas, and, also, two kinds of the scalar field (describing separately power-law inflation and the period after recombination). The numerical and analytical results obtained are processed graphically. 1
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Termodynamika černých děr. Entropie a informace.
Liška, Marek ; Acquaviva, Giovanni (advisor) ; Scholtz, Martin (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to provide a review of black hole thermodynamics and its relation with concepts of entropy and physical information. We start by deriving the four laws of black hole thermodynamics in the context of classical general relativity. To supplement this, we use semiclassical limit of quantum mechanics to show that black holes radiate and have non-zero thermodynamic temperature. In the second part of the thesis we describe the concepts of the Shannon and von Neumann entropy and of physical information. Lastly, we discuss the use of these concepts in the context of black hole mechanics. 1
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Geometry of isolated horizons
Flandera, Aleš ; Scholtz, Martin (advisor) ; Acquaviva, Giovanni (referee)
While the formalism of isolated horizons is known for some time, only quite recently the near horizon solution of Einstein's equations has been found in the Bondi-like coordinates by Krishnan in 2012. In this framework, the space-time is regarded as the characteristic initial value problem with the initial data given on the horizon and another null hypersurface. It is not clear, however, what ini- tial data reproduce the simplest physically relevant black hole solution, namely that of Kerr-Newman which describes stationary, axisymmetric black hole with charge. Moreover, Krishnan's construction employs the non-twisting null geodesic congruence and the tetrad which is parallelly propagated along this congruence. While the existence of such tetrad can be easily established in general, its explicit form can be very difficult to find and, in fact it has not been provided for the Kerr-Newman metric. The goal of this thesis was to fill this gap and provide a full description of the Kerr-Newman metric in the framework of isolated horizons. In the theoretical part of the thesis we review the spinor and Newman-Penrose formalism, basic geometry of isolated horizons and then present our results. Thesis is complemented by several appendices.
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