Is the Big Rip unreachable?

I investigate the repercussions of particle production when the Universe is dominated by a hypothetical phantom substance. I show that backreaction due to particle production prevents the density from shooting to infinity at a Big Rip, but instead forces it to stabilise at a large constant value. Af...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Konstantinos Dimopoulos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-10-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269318306531