English

Inhomogeneous cosmologies with Q-matter and varying $\Lambda$

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-31 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

Starting from the inhomogeneous shear--free Nariai metric we show, by solving the Einstein--Klein--Gordon field equations, how a self--interacting scalar field plus a material fluid, a variable cosmological term and a heat flux can drive the universe to its currently observed state of homogeneous accelerated expansion. A quintessence scenario where power-law inflation takes place for a string-motivated potential in the late--time dominated field regime is proposed.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9906125,
  title  = {Inhomogeneous cosmologies with Q-matter and varying $\Lambda$},
  author = {Luis P. Chimento and Alejandro S. Jakubi and Diego Pavon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9906125},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, Revtex. To be published in Physical Review D

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