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Running vacuum model in non-flat universe

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2020-09-29 v2

Abstract

We investigate observational constraints on the running vacuum model (RVM) of Λ=3ν(H2+K/a2)+c0\Lambda=3\nu (H^{2}+K/a^2)+c_0 in the spatially curved universe, where ν\nu is the model parameter, KK corresponds to the spatial curvature constant, and c0c_{0} is a constant defined by the boundary conditions. As Λ˙0\dot{\Lambda} \ne 0, there are energy exchanges between vacuum, matter and radiation in RVM. We study the "geometrical degeneracy" of RVM on the CMB power spectra. By fitting the cosmological data, we find that the values of χ2\chi^2 in RVM and Λ\LambdaCDM are similar to each other for the non-flat universe. Explicitly, we obtain the constraints of νO(104)\nu\leq O(10^{-4}) (68 %\% C.L.) and ΩKO(102)|\Omega_K|\leq O(10^{-2}) (95 %\% C.L.) in our study. In addition, we show that the cosmological constraints of Σmν=0.4160.407+0.311\Sigma m_{\nu}=0.416^{+0.311}_{-0.407} (RVM) and Σmν=0.4970.387+0.335\Sigma m_{\nu}=0.497^{+0.335}_{-0.387} (Λ\LambdaCDM) at 95%\% C.L. for the neutrino mass sum are relaxed in both models in the spatially curved universe.

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@article{arxiv.2002.05290,
  title  = {Running vacuum model in non-flat universe},
  author = {Chao-Qiang Geng and Yan-Ting Hsu and Lu Yin and Kaituo Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.05290},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

13 pages, 8 figures, revised version accepted by Chinese Physics C

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