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gr-qc2018★ 11 cited
Emulating CDM-like expansion on the Phantom brane
Satadru Bag, Swagat S. Mishra, Varun Sahni
In [Schmidt PRD 80 123003 (2009)], the author suggested that dynamical dark energy (DDE) propagating on the phantom brane could mimick CDM. Schmidt went on to derive a phenomeno…
gr-qc2018
Unifying Dark Matter and Dark Energy with non-Canonical Scalars
Swagat S. Mishra, Varun Sahni
Non-canonical scalar fields with the Lagrangian , possess the attractive property that the speed of sound, , can be exceedingly smal…
gr-qc2018★ 51 cited
Initial conditions for Inflation in an FRW Universe
Swagat S. Mishra, Varun Sahni, Alexey V. Toporensky
We examine the class of initial conditions which give rise to inflation. Our analysis is carried out for several popular models including: Higgs inflation, Starobinsky inflation, c…