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Title: More about the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations for the generalized Chaplygin gas

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica, Universita dell'Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy and INFN, sezione di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano (Italy)
  2. Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Via Irnerio 46, 40126 Bologna (Italy)
  3. L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kosygin Street 2, 119334 Moscow (Russian Federation)

We investigate the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations for the generalized Chaplygin gas with the aim of extending the findings of V. Gorini, U. Moschella, A. Y. Kamenshchik, V. Pasquier, and A. A. Starobinsky [Phys. Rev. D 78, 064064 (2008)]. We study both the standard case, where we reproduce some previous results, and the phantom case. In the phantom case we show that even a superluminal group velocity arising for {alpha}>1 cannot prevent the divergence of the pressure at a finite radial distance. Finally, we investigate how a modification of the generalized Chaplygin gas equation of state, required by causality arguments at densities very close to {lambda}, affects the results found so far.

OSTI ID:
21313389
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 80, Issue 10; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.104038; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English