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Solving the main cosmological puzzles with a generalized time varying vacuum energy

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-05-13 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the dynamics of the FLRW flat cosmological models in which the vacuum energy density varies with time, Λ(t)\Lambda(t). In particular, we investigate the dynamical properties of a generalized vacuum model and we find that under certain conditions the vacuum term in the radiation era varies as Λ(z)(1+z)4\Lambda(z) \propto (1+z)^{4}, while in the matter era we have Λ(z)(1+z)3\Lambda(z)\propto (1+z)^{3} up to z3z\simeq 3 and Λ(z)=Λ\Lambda(z)=\Lambda for z3z\le 3. The confirmation of such a behavior would be of paramount importance because it could provide a solution to the cosmic coincidence problem as well as to the fine tuning problem, without changing the well known (from the concordance Λ\Lambda cosmology) Hubble expansion.

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@article{arxiv.0901.3195,
  title  = {Solving the main cosmological puzzles with a generalized time varying vacuum energy},
  author = {Spyros Basilakos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.3195},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures, Accepted for publication by Astronomy and Astrophysics

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