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AVOIDING THE PHANTOM MENACE

Júlio C. Fabris

Departamento de Física – UFES

Barcelona - 2006

Inflation requires:

0a 3 0p

Strong energy condition is violated!

However, the null energy condition

does not need to be violated:

0T k k

0k k

0p

A phantom field (or fluid) is characterized by

p

1

All energy conditions are violated!

The phantom case became quite fashion due to the recent observational results

Of course, the predictions depend on which data are taken into account and how the statistics is made

Combining CMB (WMAP), matter clustering (SDSS e 2dFGRS) and supernovae:

13 . 010 . 0 93 . 0

Matts Roos, astrop-ph/0509089

Other estimations:

CMB, SNIa, large scale structures

79.039.1

S. Nannestad e E. Mortsell, JCAP 0409, 001(2004)

Including X-Rays 24.028.020,1

S.W. Allen et al., Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 353, 457(2004)

22

3

8'a

G

a

a

0)1('

3' a

a

)1(30

a

)31(

2

0 aa

addt

3

1

13

1 0

1 0

a

0

a

0

a

Inevitable consequence for a Universe dominated by an exotic fluid where all the energy conditions are

violated:

A “big rip”: a curvature singularity in a future finite proper time

This requires, however, homogeneity and isotropy

Some remarks on the perturbative behaviour of the phantom fields

Considering a barotropic equation of state

p

The following equation governing the gravitational potential is found:

0)31('2')1(3'' 22 HHqH

J.C.F and S.V.B. Gonçalves, PRD, 2006

The scale factor behaves as

)31/(2 a

The equation for the potential becomes

0'

) 3 1(

) 1(6 ' '

2

q

The solution depends on the sign of the pressure:

0

)()( 21 qJcqJc

0

)()( 21 qKcqIc

Asymptotic behaviour

0

0q 2

21 cc

q

qcos)31(

)1(3

)31(2

35

0

0q 221

cc

q

qe

)31(

)1(3

The instability at small scale may be solved using a field representation:

)(2

1

2

1 ,,,,

VggRgR

)31(

2

a

ln31

)1(32

)1(3

2)1(

)1(

3

2)(

eV

The perturbed equation is

0'

'''2'

'

''2'' 2

HHqH

Using the background solution,

0'

31

)1(32'' 2

q

The solution is:

)()( 21 qJcqJc

)31(2

35

Asymptotic behaviour:

0q 221

cc

q )cos()31(

)1(6

q

0 0q

t

0 q

t

03

1 0q

t

q 03

1

t

3

11 0q

t

3

11 q

t

13

5 0q

t

13

5 q

t

3

5 0q

t

3

5 q

t

The Hubble horizon is given by

3(1 ) /(1 3 )Hl

It grows for normal fields, but it decreases when the phanton field dominates the matter content of the universe

Considering now local configurations:

22 2 2 2( ) ( )

( )

dds A dt r d

A

2 2

2

2 2

( ' ) ' 2 ( )

''2 '

( ) '' '' 2

A r r V

r

r

A r r A

0

An “anomalous” scalar field0

A “normal” scalar field

K.A. Bronnikov e J.C.F, PRL(2006)

0

0

The horizon can be the border between regular regions

A horizon

A static region

An expanding non-singular universe

Phantom inflation may be very attractive today

And it may not be so dangerous!

Moreover, local configurations are very attractive

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