Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2003-04-24
Mod.Phys.Lett. A19 (2004) 449-456
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Rextex4, 10 pages, 3 figures, revised and extended, accepted by Modern Physics Letter A
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217732304013088
Recent observations of Type Ia supernovae provide evidence for the acceleration of our universe, which leads to the possibility that the universe is entering an inflationary epoch. We simulate it under a ``big bounce'' model, which contains a time variable cosmological ``constant'' that is derived from a higher dimension and manifests itself in 4D spacetime as dark energy. By properly choosing the two arbitrary functions contained in the model, we obtain a simple exact solution in which the evolution of the universe is divided into several stages. Before the big bounce, the universe contracts from a $\Lambda $-dominated vacuum, and after the bounce, the universe expands. In the early time after the bounce, the expansion of the universe is decelerating. In the late time after the bounce, dark energy (i.e., the variable cosmological ``constant'') overtakes dark matter and baryons, and the expansion enters an accelerating stage. When time tends to infinity, the contribution of dark energy tends to two third of the total energy density of the universe, qualitatively in agreement with observations.
Liu Hongya
Wang Beili
Xu Lixin
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