Inhomogeneous vacuum energy

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/29/14/145017zbMATH Open1246.83274arXiv1203.6776OpenAlexW2027588865MaRDI QIDQ2902305FDOQ2902305

Authors: David Wands, Josue De-Santiago, Yu-Ting Wang 

Publication date: 17 August 2012

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Vacuum energy remains the simplest model of dark energy which could drive the accelerated expansion of the Universe without necessarily introducing any new degrees of freedom. Inhomogeneous vacuum energy is necessarily interacting in general relativity. Although the four-velocity of vacuum energy is undefined, an interacting vacuum has an energy transfer and the vacuum energy defines a particular foliation of spacetime with spatially homogeneous vacuum energy in cosmological solutions. It is possible to give a consistent description of vacuum dynamics and in particular the relativistic equations of motion for inhomogeneous perturbations given a covariant prescription for the vacuum energy, or equivalently the energy transfer four-vector, and we construct gauge-invariant vacuum perturbations. We show that any dark energy cosmology can be decomposed into an interacting vacuum+matter cosmology whose inhomogeneous perturbations obey simple first-order equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6776

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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