Exorcising w < -1

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2004.11.015zbMATH Open1075.85007arXivastro-ph/0409596OpenAlexW2000239314WikidataQ62598822 ScholiaQ62598822MaRDI QIDQ2484467FDOQ2484467

Authors: C. Csáki, Nemanja Kaloper, John Terning 

Publication date: 1 August 2005

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the combined dimming of Type Ia supernovae induced by both a cosmological constant and the conversion of photons into axions in extra-galactic magnetic fields can impersonate dark energy with an equation of state w < -1. An observer unaware of the presence of photon-axion conversion would interpret the additional dimming as cosmic acceleration faster than that induced by a cosmological constant alone. We find that this mechanism can mimic equations of state as negative as w simeq - 1.5. Our model does not have any ghosts, phantoms and the like. It is fully consistent with the conventional effective field theory in curved space, and all existing observational constraints on the axions are obeyed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409596

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmologydark energyaxionssupernova dimming

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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