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Dark energy with polytropic equation of state

Astrophysics 2009-02-11 v1

Abstract

Equation of state parameter plays a significant role for guessing the real nature of dark energy. In the present paper polytropic equation of state p=ωρnp=\omega\rho^n is chosen for some of the kinematical Λ\Lambda-models viz., Λ(a˙/a)2\Lambda \sim (\dot a/a)^2, Λa¨/a\Lambda \sim \ddot a/a and Λρ\Lambda \sim \rho. Although in dust cases (ω=0\omega=0) closed form solutions show no dependency on the polytropic index nn, but in non-dust situations some new possibilities are opened up including phantom energy with supernegative (ω<1\omega<-1) equation of state parameter.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0510550,
  title  = {Dark energy with polytropic equation of state},
  author = {Utpal Mukhopadhyay and Saibal Ray},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0510550},
  year   = {2009}
}

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