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Scalar perturbations and the possible self-destruction of the phantom menace

J. C. Fabris, S. V. B. Goncalves

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0603171

Abstract

Some analysis of the supernovae type Ia observational data seems to indicate that the Universe today is dominated by a phantom field, for which all energy conditions are violated. Such phantom field may imply a singularity in a future finite time, called big rip. Studying the evolution of scalar perturbations for such a field, we show that if the pressure is negative enough, the Universe can become highly inhomogeneous and this phantom menace may be avoided.

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