Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-10-07
Phys.Lett. B401 (1997) 241-246
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, revtex, no figures, discussion revised
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00400-0
A coherently oscillating scalar field, an axion as an example, is known to behave as a cold dark matter. The arguments were usually made in the Newtonian context. Ratra proved the case in relativistic context using the synchronous gauge. In this paper we present another proof based on a more suitable gauge choice, the uniform-curvature gauge, which fits the problem. By a proper time averaging the perturbed oscillating scalar field behaves as a cold dark matter on the relevant scales including the superhorizon scale.
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