Separately conserved visible and dark entropy
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After thermal decoupling in cosmology, two homogeneous sectors that evolve adiabatically without entropy injection satisfy and , hence their entropy density ratio is fixed. At a common relativistic temperature before decoupling, . Internal annihilations can change each sector's temperature and effective entropy degrees of freedom without changing its total comoving entropy.
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