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Phys. Rev. D 73, 103520 (2006) [6 pages]Cosmologies with energy exchange
Received 17 April 2006; published 30 May 2006
We provide a simple mathematical description of the exchange of energy between two fluids in an expanding Friedmann universe with zero spatial curvature. The evolution can be reduced to a single nonlinear differential equation which we solve in physically relevant cases and provide an analysis of all the possible evolutions. Particular power-law solutions exist for the expansion scale factor and are attractors at late times under particular conditions. We show how a number of problems studied in the literature, such as cosmological vacuum-energy decay, particle annihilation, and the evolution of a population of evaporating black holes, correspond to simple particular cases of our model. In all cases we can determine the effects of the energy transfer on the expansion scale factor. We also consider the situation in the presence of "antidecaying" fluids and so-called "phantom" fluids which violate the dominant energy conditions. ©2006 The American Physical Society
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