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Grand Rip and Grand Bang/Crunch cosmological singularities

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-03-07 v5

Abstract

The present accelerated expansion of the universe has enriched the list of possible scenarios for its fate, singular or not. In this paper a unifying framework for analyzing such behaviors is proposed, based on generalized power and asymptotic expansions of the barotropic index ww, or equivalently of the deceleration parameter qq, in terms of the time coordinate. Besides well known singular and non-singular future behaviors, other types of strong singularities appear around the phantom divide in flat models, with features similar to those of big rip or big bang/crunch, which we have dubbed grand rip and grand bang/crunch respectively, since energy density and pressure diverge faster than t2t^{-2} in coordinate time. In addition to this, the scale factor does not admit convergent generalized power series around these singularities with a finite number of terms with negative powers.

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@article{arxiv.1408.6997,
  title  = {Grand Rip and Grand Bang/Crunch cosmological singularities},
  author = {L. Fernández-Jambrina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.6997},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

19 pages, 2 figures. Typos amended