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On the equivalence of Lambda(t) and gravitationally induced particle production cosmologies
The correspondence between cosmological models powered by a decaying vacuum
energy density and gravitationally induced particle production is investigated.
Although being physically different in the physics behind them we show that
both classes of cosmologies under certain conditions can exhibit the same
dynamic and thermodynamic behavior. Our method is applied to obtain three
specific models that may be described either as Lambda(t)CDM or gravitationally
induced particle creation cosmologies. In the point of view of particle
production models, the later class of cosmologies can be interpreted as a kind
of one-component unification of the dark sector. By using current type Ia
supernovae data, recent estimates of the cosmic microwave background shift
parameter and baryon acoustic oscillations measurements we also perform a
statistical analysis to test the observational viability within the two
equivalent classes of models and we obtain the best-fit of the free parameters.
By adopting the Akaike information criterion we also determine the rank of the
models considered here. Finally, the particle production cosmologies (and the
associated decaying Lambda(t)-models) are modeled in the framework of field
theory by a phenomenological scalar field model.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, new comments and 8 references added. Accepted for
publication in Physics Letters
New Cosmic Accelerating Scenario without Dark Energy
We propose an alternative, nonsingular, cosmic scenario based on
gravitationally induced particle production. The model is an attempt to evade
the coincidence and cosmological constant problems of the standard model
(CDM) and also to connect the early and late time accelerating stages
of the Universe. Our space-time emerges from a pure initial de Sitter stage
thereby providing a natural solution to the horizon problem. Subsequently, due
to an instability provoked by the production of massless particles, the
Universe evolves smoothly to the standard radiation dominated era thereby
ending the production of radiation as required by the conformal invariance.
Next, the radiation becomes sub-dominant with the Universe entering in the cold
dark matter dominated era. Finally, the negative pressure associated with the
creation of cold dark matter (CCDM model) particles accelerates the expansion
and drives the Universe to a final de Sitter stage. The late time cosmic
expansion history of the CCDM model is exactly like in the standard
CDM model, however, there is no dark energy. This complete scenario is
fully determined by two extreme energy densities, or equivalently, the
associated de Sitter Hubble scales connected by , a result that has no correlation with the cosmological constant
problem. We also study the linear growth of matter perturbations at the final
accelerating stage. It is found that the CCDM growth index can be written as a
function of the growth index, . In this
framework, we also compare the observed growth rate of clustering with that
predicted by the current CCDM model. Performing a statistical test
we show that the CCDM model provides growth rates that match sufficiently well
with the observed growth rate of structure.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication by Phys. Rev. D. (final
version, some references have corrected). arXiv admin note: substantial text
overlap with arXiv:1106.193
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