Worse than a big rip?
Abstract
We show that a generalised phantom Chaplygin gas can present a future singularity in a finite future cosmic time. Unlike the big rip singularity, this singularity happens for a finite scale factor, but like the big rip singularity, it would also take place at a finite future cosmic time. In addition, we define a dual of the generalised phantom Chaplygin gas which satisfies the null energy condition. Then, in a Randall-Sundrum 1 brane-world scenario, we show that the same kind of singularity at a finite scale factor arises for a brane filled with a dual of the generalised phantom Chaplygin gas.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- January 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2007.10.079
- arXiv:
- arXiv:gr-qc/0612135
- Bibcode:
- 2008PhLB..659....1B
- Keywords:
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- Dark energy;
- Future singularities;
- Cosmology with extra dimensions;
- 98.80.-k;
- 95.36.+x;
- Cosmology;
- Dark energy;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX 4. Discussion expanded and references added. Version to appear in PLB