The van der Waals fluid and its role in cosmology

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Abstract: We analyze the properties of a generic cosmological fluid described by the van der Waals equation of state. Exact solutions for the energy density evolution are found as implicit functions of the scale factor for a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker space-time. The possible values of the free parameter in the van der Waals equation are selected emph{a posteriori}, in accordance with asymptotic behaviors that are physically relevant. The stability of the model against small perturbations is studied through the hydrodynamic perturbations of the fluid for the relevant cases. It is found that a van der Waals fluid seems appropriate to describe non-eternal inflationary scenarios.









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