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Dark Energy with w>-4/3

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Acceleration of the universe might be driven by a continuous elastic medium -- elastic dark energy (Bucher and Spergel 1999). Elastic dark energy can stably support equations of state with pressure to energy ratio w > -4/3. Stable expansion with w<-1 combined with an assumption of ``reheating of elastic energy'' leads to exotic possibilities such as Expanding Cyclic Universe -- an ever-expanding universe with periodically repeating inflationary epochs.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0405096,
  title  = {Dark Energy with w>-4/3},
  author = {Andrei Gruzinov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0405096},
  year   = {2007}
}

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