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Some remarks on the observational constraints on the self-interacting scalar field model for dark energy
The dark energy component of the cosmic budget is represented by a
self-interacting scalar field. The violation of the null energy condition is
allowed. Hence, such component can also represent a phantom fluid. The model is
tested using supernova type Ia and matter power spectrum data. The supernova
test leads to preferred values for configurations representing the phantom
fluid. The matter power spectrum constraints for the dark energy equation of
state parameter are highly degenerated. In both cases, values for the equation
of state parameter corresponding to the phantom fluid are highly admitted if no
particular prior is used.Comment: Latex file, 12 pages, 12 figures in eps forma
Scalar models for the unification of the dark sector
We review the difficulties of the generalized Chaplygin gas model to fit
observational data, due to the tension between background and perturbative
tests. We argue that such issues may be circumvented by means of a
self-interacting scalar field representation of the model. However, this
proposal seems to be successful only if the self-interacting scalar field has a
non-canonical form. The latter can be implemented in Rastall's theory of
gravity.Comment: Latex file, 8 pages, 3 figures in eps format. To appear in the
proceedings of the CosmoSul conference, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 01-05
august of 201
Duality between k-essence and Rastall gravity
The k-essence theory with a power-law function of and
Rastall's non-conservative theory of gravity with a scalar field are shown to
have the same solutions for the metric under the assumption that both the
metric and the scalar fields depend on a single coordinate. This equivalence
(called k-R duality) holds for static configurations with various symmetries
(spherical, plane, cylindrical, etc.) and all homogeneous cosmologies. In the
presence of matter, Rastall's theory requires additional assumptions on how the
stress-energy tensor non-conservation is distributed between different
contributions. Two versions of such non-conservation are considered in the case
of isotropic spatially flat cosmological models with a perfect fluid: one (R1)
in which there is no coupling between the scalar field and the fluid, and
another (R2) in which the fluid separately obeys the usual conservation law. In
version R1 it is shown that k-R duality holds not only for the cosmological
models themselves but also for their adiabatic perturbations. In version R2,
among other results, a particular model is singled out that reproduces the same
cosmological expansion history as the standard CDM model but predicts
different behaviors of small fluctuations in the k-essence and Rastall
frameworks.Comment: 10 pages, no figures. Two references adde
Bouncing solutions in Rastall's theory with a barotropic fluid
Rastall's theory is a modification of Einstein's theory of gravity where the
covariant divergence of the stress-energy tensor is no more vanishing, but
proportional to the gradient of the Ricci scalar. The motivation of this theory
is to investigate a possible non-minimal coupling of the matter fields to
geometry which, being proportional to the curvature scalar, may represent an
effective description of quantum gravity effects. Non-conservation of the
stress-energy tensor, via Bianchi identities, implies new field equations which
have been recently used in a cosmological context, leading to some interesting
results. In this paper we adopt Rastall's theory to reproduce some features of
the effective Friedmann's equation emerging from loop quantum cosmology. We
determine a class of bouncing cosmological solutions and comment about the
possibility of employing these models as effective descriptions of the full
quantum theory.Comment: Latex file, 14 pages, 1 figure in eps format. Typos corrected, one
reference added. Published versio
Inertial-Hall effect: the influence of rotation on the Hall conductivity
Inertial effects play an important role in classical mechanics but have been
largely overlooked in quantum mechanics. Nevertheless, the analogy between
inertial forces on mass particles and electromagnetic forces on charged
particles is not new. In this paper, we consider a rotating non-interacting
planar two-dimensional electron gas with a perpendicular uniform magnetic field
and investigate the effects of the rotation in the Hall conductiv
On Attitudes Toward Spanish Varieties: A Bilingual Perspective
This study explores the attitudes of 25 English-Spanish bilingual speakers from Tucson (Arizona) towards their own variety and compares them with their attitudes toward monolingual varieties of Mexican (from Hermosillo) and Peninsular Spanish (from Murcia and Madrid). Our analysis points to a clear influence of the standard language ideology (MILROY, 2001) on shaping these attitudes, escalated by a tendency among bilinguals in diglossic societies to feel insecure about their own variety as a minority language, or towards a feeling of linguistic self-hatred.
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Este estudo explora as atitudes de 25 falantes bilíngues de espanhol e inglês de Tucson (Arizona) com relação à sua própria variedade linguística, comparando essas atitudes em relação ao espanhol de Hermosillo (México) e a duas variedades peninsulares: a espanhola de Múrcia e a de Madrid. Nossa análise mostra uma clara influência da ideologia da língua padrão (MILROY, 2001) em determinar essas atitudes, agravada pela tendência de os falantes bilíngues de sociedades diglóssicas se sentirem inseguros quanto à sua própria variedade como uma língua minoritária, ou relacionada a um sentimento de auto-ódio linguístico
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