Can the cosmological dark sector be modeled by a single scalar field?
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2018-08-22 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
In a previous paper it was shown that a minimally coupled scalar field of mass can describe both components of the dark sector in a unified way. In the solution found, the dark energy component decays linearly with the Hubble parameter, with a homogeneous creation of dark matter. In the present note we show that a CDM dark sector can also be modeled by such a single field. More generally, we show that the system of Klein-Gordon and Einstein equations admits a uniparametric family of solutions that is equivalent to a non-adiabatic (with zero sound speed) generalised Chaplygin gas.
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@article{arxiv.1801.10548,
title = {Can the cosmological dark sector be modeled by a single scalar field?},
author = {Saulo Carneiro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.10548},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
5 pages, version to appear in Gen. Relativ. Gravit