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Two-fluid solutions of particle-creation cosmologies

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Barrow, John David 
Paliathanasis, Andronikos 
Pan, Supriya 

Abstract

Cosmological evolution driven incorporating continuous particle creation by the time-varying gravitational field is investigated. We consider a spatially homogeneous and isotropic universe with two matter fluids in the context of general relativity. One fluid is endowed with gravitationally induced `adiabatic' particle creation, while the second fluid simply satisfies the conservation of energy. We show that the dynamics of the two fluids is entirely controlled by a single nonlinear differential equation involving the particle creation rate, F(t). We consider a very general particle creation rate, F(t), that reduces to several special cases of cosmological interest, including F = constant, F proportional to 1/H^n (n an integer N), F proportional to exp(1/H). Finally, we present singular algebraic solutions of the gravitational eld equations for the two-fluid particle creation models and discuss their stability.

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5107 Particle and High Energy Physics, 51 Physical Sciences

Journal Title

European Physical Journal C

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Journal ISSN

1434-6044
1434-6052

Volume Title

79

Publisher

Springer Verlag
Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/P000673/1)
FONDECYT grant no. 3160121