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Instabilities and the null energy condition

Roman V. Buniy, Stephen D. H. Hsu

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0502203

Abstract

We show that violation of the null energy condition implies instability in a broad class of models, including classical gauge theories with scalar and fermionic matter as well as any perfect fluid. When applied to the dark energy, our results imply that w = p / ρ is unlikely to be less than -1.

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