General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
[Submitted on 28 Apr 2008 (v1), last revised 16 Jul 2008 (this version, v2)]
Title:Phantom-like behaviour in a brane-world model with curvature effects
View PDFAbstract: Recent observational evidence seems to allow the possibility that our universe may currently be under a dark energy effect of a phantom nature. A suitable effective phantom fluid behaviour can emerge in brane cosmology; In particular, within the normal non self-accelerating DGP branch, without any exotic matter and due to curvature effects from induced gravity. The phantom-like behaviour is based in defining an effective energy density that grows as the brane expands. This effective description breaks down at some point in the past when the effective energy density becomes negative and the effective equation of state parameter blows up. In this paper we investigate if the phantom-like regime can be enlarged by the inclusion of a Gauss-Bonnet (GB) term into the bulk. The motivation is that such a GB component would model additional curvature effects on the brane setting. More precisely, our aim is to determine if the GB term, dominating and modifying the early behaviour of the brane universe, may eventually extend the regime of validity of the phantom mimicry on the brane. However, we show that the opposite occurs: the GB effect seems instead to induce a breakdown of the phantom-like behaviour at an even smaller redshift.
Submission history
From: Mariam Bouhmadi-Lopez [view email][v1] Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:41:27 UTC (286 KB)
[v2] Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:59:25 UTC (290 KB)
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