Phantom Matter and the Cosmological Constant

Abstract

Motivated by some recent speculative attempts to model the dark energy, scalar fields with negative kinetic energy coupled to gravity without a cosmological constant are considered. It is shown that in the presence of an ordinary fluid, any solution of the vacuum Einstein equations with cosmological constant is a solution provided $\rho -P=\frac{\Lambda }{4\pi G}$. The solutions can be interpreted as a steady state in which matter or entropy is being continuously created (or destroyed). The motion of the matter is not determined by the background Einstein spacetime, many different matter flows can be found giving rise to the same metric. Solutions without ordinary matter are also considered. Anti-gravitating multi-solutions and repulsive solutions which can chase ordinary matter or black holes are exhibited. These results may also have applications to gravity theories with higher derivatives.

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