A Sudden Gravitational Transition

Details A Sudden Gravitational Transition A Sudden Gravitational Transition

2005-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507622v2

Phys.Rev. D73 (2006) 023513

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 8 figures; added references

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We investigate the properties of a cosmological scenario which undergoes a gravitational phase transition at late times. In this scenario, the Universe evolves according to general relativity in the standard, hot Big Bang picture until a redshift z \lesssim 1. Non-perturbative phenomena associated with a minimally-coupled scalar field catalyzes a transition, whereby an order parameter consisting of curvature quantities such as R^2, R_{ab}R^{ab}, R_{abcd}R^{abcd} acquires a constant expectation value. The ensuing cosmic acceleration appears driven by a dark-energy component with an equation-of-state w < -1. We evaluate the constraints from type 1a supernovae, the cosmic microwave background, and other cosmological observations. We find that a range of models making a sharp transition to cosmic acceleration are consistent with observations.

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