Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-05-07
Phys.Lett.B652:63-68,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
revtex4, five figures. Corrected some typos and added new references. Physics Letters B652, 63-68 (2007)
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.06.065
The energy conditions provide a very promising model-independent study of the current acceleration of the universe. However, in order to connect these conditions with observations, one often needs first to integrate them, and then find the corresponding constraints on some observational variables, such as the distance modulus. Those integral forms can be misleading, and great caution is needed when one interprets them physically. A typical example is that the transition point of the deceleration parameter $q(z)$ is at about $z \simeq 0.76$ in the $\Lambda$CDM model. However, with the same model when we consider the dimensionless Hubble parameter $E(z)$, which involves the integration of $q(z)$, we find that $E(z)$ does not cross the line of $q(z) = 0$ before $z = 2$. Therefore, to get the correct result, we cannot use the latter to determine the transition point. With these in mind, we carefully study the constraints from the energy conditions, and find that, among other things, the current observational data indeed strongly indicate that our universe has ocne experienced an accelerating expansion phase between the epoch of galaxy formation and the present.
Gong Yun-gui
Wang Anzhong
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