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    The unphysical character of dark energy fluids

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    It is well known that, in the context of general relativity, an unknown kind of matter that must violate the strong energy condition is required to explain the current accelerated phase of expansion of the Universe. This unknown component is called dark energy and is characterized by an equation of state parameter w=p/ρ<1/3w=p/\rho<-1/3. Thermodynamic stability requires that 3wdlnw/dlna03w-d\ln |w|/d\ln a\ge0 and positiveness of entropy that w1w\ge-1. In this paper we proof that we cannot obtain a differentiable function w(a)w(a) to represent the dark energy that satisfies these conditions trough the entire history of the Universe.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figur
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