Inhomogeneous Chaplygin Gas Cosmology

Abstract

The hypothesis that dark matter and dark energy are unified through the Chaplygin gas is reexamined. Using a generalization of the spherical model which incorporates effects of the acoustic horizon we show that an initially perturbative Chaplygin gas evolves into a mixed system containing cold dark matter in the form of gravitational condensate. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the observed CMB angular and baryonic power spectra are reproduced.

4 pages, 4 figures, talk by N. Bilic at the 15th Rencontres de Blois, June 2003