What if gravity becomes really repulsive in the future?
Abstract
The current acceleration of the Universe is one of the most puzzling issues in theoretical physics nowadays. We are far from giving an answer on this letter to its true nature. Yet, with the observations we have at hand, we analyse the different patterns that the gravitational potential can show in the future. Surprisingly, gravity not only can get weaker in the near future, it can even become repulsive; or equivalently, the gravitational potential may become negative. We show this remark by using one of the simplest phenomenological model we can imagine for dark energy. We have as well reviewed the statefinder approach of these models. For completeness, we have also showed the behaviour of the density contrast of dark matter and dark energy for these simple (yet illustrative models). Our results are displayed at present and how they evolve in the future.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1706.01484,
title = {What if gravity becomes really repulsive in the future?},
author = {Imanol Albarran and Mariam Bouhmadi-López and João Morais},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.01484},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 figures. Further explanations provided. Version accepted in EPJC