Revisiting the confrontation of the energy conditions with supernovae data

Abstract

In the standard Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) approach to model the Universe the violation of the so-called energy conditions is related to some important properties of the Universe as, for example, the current and the inflationary accelerating expansion phases. The energy conditions are also necessary in the formulation and proofs of Hawking-Penrose singularity theorems. In two recent articles we have derived bounds from energy conditions and made confrontations of these bounds with supernovae data. Here, we extend these results in following way: first, by using our most recent statistical procedure for calculating new q(z) estimates from the \emph{gold} and \emph{combined} type Ia supernovae samples; second, we use these estimates to obtain a new picture of the energy conditions fulfillment and violation for the recent past ($z\le 1$) in the context of the standard cosmology.

arXiv comment5 pages. To appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D. Talk presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics. V2: typos corrected

References in corpus (1)

• Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old and Combined Supernova Datasets

Cited by in corpus (1)

• A Conformally Flat Generalized Ricci Recurrent Spacetime in F(R)-Gravity