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Radiation can never again dominate Matter in a Vacuum Dominated Universe

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We demonstrate that in a vacuum-energy-dominated expansion phase, surprisingly neither the decay of matter nor matter-antimatter annihilation into relativistic particles can ever cause radiation to once again dominate over matter in the future history of the universe.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0702207,
  title  = {Radiation can never again dominate Matter in a Vacuum Dominated Universe},
  author = {Lawrence M. Krauss and Robert J. Scherrer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0702207},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

updated version, as it will appear in Phys. Rev D. Title change, and some other minor alterations