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Matching torsion Lambda - term with observations

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

Taking into account a torsion field gives rise to a negative pressure contribution in cosmological dynamics and then to an accelerated behaviour of Hubble fluid. The presence of torsion has the same effect of a Lambda - term. We obtain a general exact solution which well fits the data coming from high - redshift supernovae and Sunyaev - Zeldovich/X - ray method for the determination of the cosmological parameters. On the other hand, it is possible to obtain observational constraints on the amount of torsion density. A dust dominated Friedmann behaviour is recovered as soon as torsion effects are not relevant.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0209610,
  title  = {Matching torsion Lambda - term with observations},
  author = {S. Capozziello and V. F. Cardone and E. Piedipalumbo and M. Sereno and A. Troisi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0209610},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication on Int. Journ. Mod. Phys. D