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Big smash of the universe

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-10 v1 Astrophysics

Abstract

The occurrence of a big smash singularity which ends the universe in a finite time in the future is investigated in the context of superquintessence, i.e. dark energy with effective equation of state parameter w<-1. The simplest model of superquintessence based on a single nonminimally coupled scalar field exhibits big smash solutions which are attractors in phase space.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0307086,
  title  = {Big smash of the universe},
  author = {Valerio Faraoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0307086},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

13 pages, LaTeX, no figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. D