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Grand rip and grand bang/crunch cosmological singularities

Authors :
Leonardo Fernández-Jambrina
Source :
Physical Review D. 90
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
American Physical Society (APS), 2014.

Abstract

The present accelerated expansion of the universe has enriched the list of possible scenarios for its fate, singular or not. In this paper a unifying framework for analyzing such behaviors is proposed, based on generalized power and asymptotic expansions of the barotropic index $w$, or equivalently of the deceleration parameter $q$, in terms of the time coordinate. Besides well known singular and non-singular future behaviors, other types of strong singularities appear around the phantom divide in flat models, with features similar to those of big rip or big bang/crunch, which we have dubbed grand rip and grand bang/crunch respectively, since energy density and pressure diverge faster than $t^{-2}$ in coordinate time. In addition to this, the scale factor does not admit convergent generalized power series around these singularities with a finite number of terms with negative powers.<br />19 pages, 2 figures. Typos amended

Details

ISSN :
15502368 and 15507998
Volume :
90
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical Review D
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....8b4c735c33b2eff5e183d14ddd620f91
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.90.064014