Energy conditions in the epoch of galaxy formation

Abstract

The energy conditions of Einstein gravity (classical general relativity) do not require one to fix a specific equation of state. In a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe where the equation of state for the cosmological fluid is uncertain, the energy conditions provide simple, model-independent, and robust bounds on the behaviour of the density and look-back time as a function of red-shift. Current observations suggest that the "strong energy condition" is violated sometime between the epoch of galaxy formation and the present. This implies that no possible combination of "normal" matter is capable of fitting the observational data.

Old article from 1997; somewhat tricky to access online; 5 pages in preprint form. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:gr-qc/9705070

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