 Cosmological entropy conservation (source code)

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= Cosmological entropy conservation

For an adiabatically expanding homogeneous universe, the <entropy density> satisfies
$$
\nabla_\mu(su^\mu)=0,
\qquad
\dot s+3Hs=0,
$$
so the entropy $sa^3$ in a comoving volume is constant.

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