Published July 1, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Future singularity avoidance in phantom dark energy models

  • 1. Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada I, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona (Spain)

Description

Different approaches to quantum cosmology are studied in order to deal with the future singularity avoidance problem. Our results show that these future singularities will persist but could take different forms. As an example we have studied the big rip which appear when one considers the state equation P = ωρ with ω < −1, showing that it does not disappear in modified gravity. On the other hand, it is well-known that quantum geometric effects (holonomy corrections) in loop quantum cosmology introduce a quadratic modification, namely proportional to ρ2, in Friedmann's equation that replace the big rip by a non-singular bounce. However this modified Friedmann equation could have been obtained in an inconsistent way, what means that the obtained results from this equation, in particular singularity avoidance, would be incorrect. In fact, we will show that instead of a non-singular bounce, the big rip singularity would be replaced, in loop quantum cosmology, by other kind of singularity

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2012/07/007

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2012
Journal Issue
07
Journal Page Range
p. 007
ISSN
1475-7516

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
45101382
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
ASTROPHYSICS; CORRECTIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; GEOMETRY; GRAVITATION; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PHANTOMS; QUANTUM COSMOLOGY; SINGULARITY
Descriptors DEC
COSMOLOGY; EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICS; MATTER; MOCKUP; PHYSICS; STRUCTURAL MODELS