Can the cosmological dark sector be modeled by a single scalar field?
Abstract
In a previous paper it was shown that a minimally coupled scalar field of mass M ∼ H_0 can describe both components of the dark sector in a unified way. In the solution found, the dark energy component decays linearly with the Hubble parameter, with a homogeneous creation of dark matter. In the present note we show that a Λ CDM dark sector can also be modeled by such a single field. More generally, we show that the system of Klein-Gordon and Einstein equations admits a uniparametric family of solutions that is equivalent to a non-adiabatic (with zero sound speed) generalised Chaplygin gas.
- Publication:
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General Relativity and Gravitation
- Pub Date:
- September 2018
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s10714-018-2439-4
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1801.10548
- Bibcode:
- 2018GReGr..50..114C
- Keywords:
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- Dark energy;
- Interactions in the dark sector;
- Generalised Chaplygin gas;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, version to appear in Gen. Relativ. Gravit