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Rastall Cosmology and the ΛCDM Model

arXiv:1112.4141 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.85.084008

Abstract

Rastall's theory is based on the non-conservation of the energy-momentum tensor. We show that, in this theory, if we introduce a two-fluid model, one component representing vacuum energy whereas the other pressureless matter (e.g. baryons plus cold dark matter), the cosmological scenario is the same as for the ΛCDM model, both at background and linear perturbative levels, except for one aspect: now dark energy may cluster. We speculate that this can lead to a possibility of distinguishing the models at the non-linear perturbative level.

9 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D

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