Phantom damping of matter perturbations
Cosmological scaling solutions are particularly important in solving the coincidence problem of dark energy. We derive the equations of sub-Hubble linear matter perturbations for a general scalar-field Lagrangian—including quintessence, tachyon, dilatonic ghost condensate and k-essence—and solve the...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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8 November 2005
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Physics letters
Year: 2006, Volume: 632, Issue: 2, Pages: 155-158 |
| ISSN: | 1873-2445 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.physletb.2005.10.065 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2005.10.065 Verlag, Volltext: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269305015534 
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| Author Notes: | Luca Amendola, Shinji Tsujikawa, M. Sami |
| Summary: | Cosmological scaling solutions are particularly important in solving the coincidence problem of dark energy. We derive the equations of sub-Hubble linear matter perturbations for a general scalar-field Lagrangian—including quintessence, tachyon, dilatonic ghost condensate and k-essence—and solve them analytically for scaling solutions. We find that matter perturbations are always damped if a phantom field is coupled to dark matter and identify the cases in which the gravitational potential is constant. This provides an interesting possibility to place stringent observational constraints on scaling dark energy models. |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1873-2445 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.physletb.2005.10.065 |